In article <Pine.SGI.3.90.941101120044.2969D-100000@mini.sarnoff.com> rminnich@mini.sarnoff.com (Ron Minnich) writes:
>yer basic taiwan motherboard, intel pci chipset. says the slots are 
>'16-bit ISA'. has the bt946c scsi controller on the pci bus. I ran out of 
>$$$ for now so went with 3c509 on the isa bus. (ok, was this a mistake 
>:-( ) but i want 100B, not 10b!
>
>anyway, i've booted the kdbt-10 and inst-10 disks, and the file system is
>basically there, can boot off the hard disk, etc.. The system seems to work
>just fine if i don't need a network. i can ifconfig, etc. What i don't get is
>packets out the 3c509 to the outside world. I've hooked up to the 10bt port,
>and to the aui port with a 10bt adapter. My offhand guess is i'm not getting
>interrupts, but i have gone into the bios and reserved irq 10 for the isa
>side of the universe, so can't see why that would happen. 
>
>any thoughts would be appreciated. Geez i hate pcs sometimes.
>ron

1. configure the ep adapter using the supplied dos configuration program.
   I use the Server, and No modem settings.
2. man ep, and set the link0 and link1 flags for your configuration.

christos