SS> For some reason on NOVEL NE1000 & NE2000's you can only use ints between
SS> 2 & 5 so it's limited me to using INT 5 ;)
That's true...but if the card is configured with jumpers, and if the driver 
will accept other IRQ values, you can actually 'reconfigure' the card with a 
knife, a piece of wire and a soldering iron. A bit extreme perhaps, but 
sometimes there's just not enough free IRQs.
SS> INT 0 is System Timer
SS> INT 1 is Keyboard
SS> INT 2 is Cascade -> INT 9
SS> INT 3 is COM2
SS> INT 4 is Mouse
SS> INT 5 NOW Network Card
SS> Don't suppose you know what INT 2 is actually used for ???
(Its really IRQs (hardware interrupts), not INTs (software).)
The original PC/XT only had 8 interrupt lines. The second interrupt 
controller that handles IRQs 8 to 15 on ATs and above is connected to IRQ2 on 
the first controller. The pin on the ISA bus that used to be IRQ2 on XTs is 
now IRQ9.
IOW, you can jumper the card to use IRQ2 and set the driver to IRQ9 in 
NET.CFG.
SS> Or the fact that I was being a mupped that after being told that they
SS> were NE2000's thats what I was trying to configure, just out of curiosity
SS> I tried using the adapter and settings for a NE1000 and it worked :))
You can easily tell a NE2000 from a NE1000. The NE1000 is an 8-bit card, 
meaning that it only has the larger of the two connectors that plugs into the 
ISA bus.
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