isa cards?

[jayR]

The old meets the less old.

Is there a faq somewhere on how to set up isa devices in winME (98)?

How about winME device drivers for 3c507, SMC 8003EP, or an ancient Novell ISA UAX/10baseT card?

 

[Iron Woode]

isa cards are fairly easy to set up. Just install the card and see what windows tells you. I would assume that winME would have legacy drivers built in for them. Although PCI cards perform better than isa cards do.

If you are having trouble finding drivers you can try www.windrivers.com or www.driverguide.com

 

[jayR]

Thanks for responding woode.

There are drivers for my 3com 3c507 and Novell ne2000 included in winME. Originally I tried the 3c507. I could use a config utility to select from a short list of IRQs. All of them conflicted with IRQs used by p&p devices. I wanted to know how to configure my bios and Device Manager to reserve an IRq for the card. The irq, i/o address and memory address where not configurable in Device Manager.

Next I found that there is no post win 3.1 driver for the smc 8003EP card. Not on the winME installation CD. Not at www.driverguide.com. www.windrivers.com costs several dollars per month 🙁.

Luckily I found a sight that shows how to jumper the ne2000. I was able to select an otherwise unused irq. This seems to work ok.

 

[Garion]

You want the easy answer? Those cards are so old they probably WORK, but are likely a real PITA. Why not go spend $15 on a good 10/100 NIC? Probably cost you a LOT less in time and hassle.

- G

 

[jayR]

I need isa cards unless I buy a new mobo. I have 3 pci slots, all filled: Sound card, modem card, and UltraDMA 100 card. I have 3 isa slots. One used: parallel port card.

 

[Saltin]

My experience with ISA cards, which is minimal (thank goodness), leads me to think that what you want to do is script the resource assignments in the autoexec.bat file. Things like
Set Blaster = blah blah blah.

 

[eplebnista]

Hello,

Here is a link to a possible USB solution.

eplebnista