state = disabled // allied tellesyn at1500bt isa ethernet

[george]

if you do not want to read all the details, is there a
document detailing troubleshooting of the allied
tellesyn 1500bt isa ethernet adapter ?


pcnet isa ii

chipset : AM79C961AKc

pnpid : AT - 1500BT - PNP


the card is at pnp mode ( nic eeprom), bios at boot detects it, bios 
controls the irq/dma resources


modprobe pcnet32 = just the name of the author displayed

/etc/init.d/networking restart ,no result

ifconfig -a

o        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          LOOPBACK  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)




cat /sys/bus/pnp/devices/01\:01.00/id
ATK1500
PNP828c

cat /sys/bus/pnp/devices/01\:01.00/resources
state = disabled

echo "auto"> /sys/bus/pnp/devices/01\:01.00/resources

cat /sys/bus/pnp/devices/01\:01.00/resources

state = disabled
io 0x220-0x237
irq 5
dma 3


cat /sys/bus/pnp/devices/01\:01.00/options

port 0x220-0x3e0, align 0x1f, size 0x18, 10-bit address decoding
irq 3,4,5,2/9,10,11,12,15 High-Edge
dma 3,5,6,7 8-bit&16-bit master compatible


pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x208-0x20f has been reserved
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Card 'ATI AT-1500 Ethernet Network Adapter'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total