derSammler wrote on 2020-05-04, 11:02:
_Rob wrote on 2020-05-04, 07:06:
Looking for someone with a ISA NE2000 PnP adapter that can dump the PnP data. This is to enable emulation of the PnP feature.
There is no such thing. The Novell NE2000 had no PnP, it was first released in 1988 and sold for many, many years unchanged. There were zillions of NE2000-compatible clones later however, which were PnP cards. So what exactly are you after? The PnP data of any arbitrary NE2000-compatible card?
That feature request seems to ask for emulating something that never existed. And that just because you have to scan for new hardware in Win95 when enabling it later? That's just how it was back then with real metal, too.
Novell never made the NE2000 cards themselves, the were actually made by "Eagle/Anthem", and simply branded as Novell. It is a National semiconductor reference design, which similar to the IBM PC itself used off the shelf components, making it easy for "clone" cards to be created.
But should that prevent PnP support, just because there was no official "Novell NE2000 PnP" card? There were plenty of NE2000 "compatible" PnP cards by other vendors.
Here is a windows .INF file with plenty of examples:
http://davydov.phys.spbu.ru/netnovel.inf
Note: I did find references to a Novell/Eagle "NE2000 Plus", which was jumperless, and as such may have been PnP (or it was a proprietary setup).