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        This file contain the old documentation of the Wavelan

driver. This is kept here for historical reason. Look the wavelan man

page or in wavelan.p.h for a more up to date documentation...

        Jean

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Sun Jul  2 01:38:33 EST 1995

1. At present the driver autoprobes for a WaveLAN card only at I/O address 0x390.

   The version of the card that I use (NCR) supports four I/O addresses (selectable

   via a pair of DIP switches).  If you want the driver to autoprobe a different

   subset of the four valid addresses then you will need to edit

   .../drivers/net/wavelan.c (near line 714) and change the initialisation of the

   `iobase[]' array.  Normally, I use a LILO configuration file directive to

   obviate the need for autoprobing entirely, a course of action I heartily

   recommend.

2. By default, the driver uses the Network ID (NWID) stored in the card's Parameter

   Storage Area (PSA).  However, the PSA NWID can be overridden by a value passed

   explicitly as the third numeric argument to LILO's "ether=" directive, either

   at the LILO prompt at boot time or within LILO's configuration file.

   For example, the following line from such a LILO configuration file would

   auto-configure the IRQ value, set the I/O base to 0x390 and set the NWID to

   0x4321, all on a WaveLAN card labelled "eth0":

        ..

        append  ="ether=0,0x390,0x4321,eth0"

        ..

3. The driver uses the IRQ stored in the card's PSA.

   To change this you will need to use the configuration/setup software that

   accompanies each WaveLAN device.  Yes, the driver should use the value passed

   in via LILO and it will, just as soon as I can work out why that part of the

   code doesn't work :-(.

4. If you encounter any problems send me some email.

Good luck,

Bruce Janson (bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au)