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Sun Jul  2 01:38:33 EST 1995

1. At present the driver autoprobes for a WaveLAN card only at I/O address 0x390.
   The version of the card that I use (NCR) supports four I/O addresses (selectable
   via a pair of DIP switches).  If you want the driver to autoprobe a different
   subset of the four valid addresses then you will need to edit
   .../drivers/net/wavelan.c (near line 714) and change the initialisation of the
   `iobase[]' array.  Normally, I use a LILO configuration file directive to
   obviate the need for autoprobing entirely, a course of action I heartily
   recommend.

2. By default, the driver uses the Network ID (NWID) stored in the card's Parameter
   Storage Area (PSA).  However, the PSA NWID can be overridden by a value passed
   explicitly as the third numeric argument to LILO's "ether=" directive, either
   at the LILO prompt at boot time or within LILO's configuration file.
   For example, the following line from such a LILO configuration file would
   auto-configure the IRQ value, set the I/O base to 0x390 and set the NWID to
   0x4321, all on a WaveLAN card labelled "eth0":

        ..
        append  ="ether=0,0x390,0x4321,eth0"
        ..

3. The driver uses the IRQ stored in the card's PSA.
   To change this you will need to use the configuration/setup software that
   accompanies each WaveLAN device.  Yes, the driver should use the value passed
   in via LILO and it will, just as soon as I can work out why that part of the
   code doesn't work :-(.

4. If you encounter any problems send me some email.

Good luck,
Bruce Janson (bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au)

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