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Title: NE2000 compatible cards

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NE2000 compatible cards

NE2000 compatible lancards are due to cause trouble!

The driver has been optimized for original NE2000 cards, so that so-called compatible can not handle it. These cards are not compatible!

A sure sign for this is, that the kernel hangs during the boot sequence, directly after the CSLIP driver was initialized. But other strange things may also happen.

For this reason we strongly advise to remove the lan interface card from the computer, until everything else has been set up successfuly and runs stable.

Nevertheless in some cases these cards were made running stable. It is most important, that these cards are not autoprobed. Procede along the following guidelines.

Genuine NE2000 cards from Novell do not cause trouble. Similar problems with other cards (WD80x3, 3Com509, ...) are not known yet.

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Keywords: NE2000, LANCARD, ETHERNET, BOOT, CSLIP

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