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This is a old piece of hardware and i certainly wouldn't pay for one, but in case you have one laying around, here goes:
The physical board can be hard to identify, first versions shipped with "INTEL 8/16 lan adapter" written on it, takes some serious googling to link it to the real name.
It's not PnP, you have to program the on-board EEPROM using softset (pure dos utility) and define IO range, IRQ and optionaly netbooting (not very useful, only ancient protocols there).
In GNU/Linux, doing modprobe eexpress io=123 irq=0 (use the values you programmed) should be enough to get it going.
The kernel driver mentions some problems, so it should not be used in critical operations.
Supports Rj45, AUI & BNC.
to get softset search the web for "inte16.exe". This package contains several tools from Intel.
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eexpress
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82586
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02-10-2004, 03:50 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 465
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 3
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I've been trying to use this as one of the network cards in a dedicated firewall. I got it for free because the physics lab at school was throwing out all their old stuff :). It sort of works, in the sense that I can modprobe it. It will sometimes connect to the internet for me, but it tends to disconnect after a few minutes. And when it does disconnect, I'm unable to ping it until I reboot.
I don't know if it is a problem with my specific card (it might have been damaged or something) or with EtherExpress 16's in general. Maybe someone else has a story to tell...
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