If you have a DOS partition, boot it, if not use your handy dandy DOS   
boot disk.  Run the Intel Ethernet Express 16 setup program   
(softset.exe).

Go to manual configuration and enable buffers at 0xCC000, 0xD0000,   
0xD4000, 0x8000, or 0xD8000 only.  Make sure the buffers are 32Kbyte   
buffers, not 16Kbyte buffers (not supported).

The card will magically work.  Ignore that stupid AT&T error, it's part   
of the Starlan detection code which happens before the EXP16 detection   
code.

Also, actually the EXP16 IS detected!  The code finds that your card   
exists then tries to find out where your cards buffer is located, if it   
doesn't find a 32Kbyte buffer in the range listed above, the code just   
bails with no message.  So yes, your card was detected, the code just   
didn't tell you why.  I had to go through the code to find this out,   
since it isn't documented anywhere.  At least the author of the EXP16   
code is a good coder and commenter (hat off to who ever deserves this   
complement).

jam
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From:  owner-current-users[SMTP:owner-current-users@NetBSD.ORG]
Sent:  Friday, February 16, 1996 1:47 AM
To:  current-users
Subject:  Intel EtherExpress with i386/NetBSD

Has anyone managed to successfully use it?
According to the config file, ie0 should deal with this,
yet, on two machines, it fails to recognize the card.
(the IRQ settings and ioport I had to change to reflect the
cards in the machine.. could that have caused it?)

Any previously successful experience would be nice.