For complete list of supported devices and respective device driver names please consult the Related Documents section.
The device drivers for PCI, miniPCI, PC (PCMCIA) and CardBus cards are loaded automatically. Other network interface cards (most ISA and PCI ISDN cards) require the device drivers to be loaded manually using the /driver add command.
Users cannot add their own device drivers, only drivers included in the Mikrotik RouterOS software packages can be used. If you need a support for a device, which hasn't a driver yet, you are welcome to suggest it at suggestion page on our web site.
[admin@MikroTik] > /driver print Flags: I - invalid, D - dynamic # DRIVER IRQ IO MEMORY ISDN-PROTOCOL 0 D RealTek 8139 1 D Atheros AR5211 PCI 2 D VIA Rhine I/II Fast Ethernet [admin@MikroTik] >As we see, the driver for the Realtek PCI card has been loaded automatically as well as drivers for Atheros wireless adapter and VIA Rhine Fast Ethernet controller.
To see system resources occupied by the devices, use the /system resource io print and /system resource irq print commands.
If an installed device requires the driver to be loaded manually, use the /driver add command.
If hexadecimal values are used for the arguments, put 0x before the number
To see the list of available drivers, enter the /driver add name ? command
The resource list shows only those interfaces, which are enabled
Typical io values for ISA cards are 0x280, 0x300 and 0x320
[admin@MikroTik] driver> add name ?
Name of driver to load.
3c509 3com 3c509 ISA
c101 Moxa C101 ISA
ne2k-isa ISA NE2000
pc-isa Aironet ISAxx00
[admin@MikroTik] driver>
To see system resources occupied by the devices, use the /system resource io print
and /system resource irq print commands:
[admin@MikroTik] system resource> irq print Flags: U - unused IRQ OWNER 1 keyboard 2 APIC U 3 4 sync1 5 pc1 U 6 U 7 U 8 U 9 10 ether2 11 ether1 U 12 13 FPU 14 IDE 1 [admin@MikroTik] system resource> io print PORT-RANGE OWNER 20-3F APIC 40-5F timer 60-6F keyboard 80-8F DMA A0-BF APIC C0-DF DMA F0-FF FPU 1F0-1F7 IDE 1 300-33F pc1 3C0-3DF VGA 3F6-3F6 IDE 1 CF8-CFF [PCI conf1] 1000-100F [Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]] 1000-1007 IDE 1 1008-100F IDE 2 6000-60FF [Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139] 6000-60FF [8139too] 6100-61FF [Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (#2)] 6100-61FF [8139too] [admin@MikroTik] system resource>Suppose we need to load a driver for a NE2000 compatible ISA card. Assume we had considered the information above and have checked avalable resources in our system. To add the driver, we must do the following:
[admin@MikroTik] driver> add name=ne2k-isa io=0x280 [admin@MikroTik] driver> print Flags: I - invalid, D - dynamic # DRIVER IRQ IO MEMORY ISDN-PROTOCOL 0 D RealTek 8139 1 D Intel EtherExpressPro 2 D PCI NE2000 3 ISA NE2000 280 4 Moxa C101 Synchronous C8000 [admin@MikroTik] driver>
Use the /driver remove command to remove device drivers. Unloading a device driver is useful when you swap or remove a network device - it saves system resources avoiding to load drivers for removed devices.
Device driver needs to be removed and loaded again, if some parameters (memory range, i/o base address) have been changed for the network interface card.
The Ricoh adapter might not work properly with some older motherboards. When recognized properly by the BIOS during the boot up of the router, it should be reported under the PCI device listing as "PCI/CardBus bridge". Try using another motherboard, if the adapter or the Prism card are not recognized properly.
Note that the maximum number of PCMCIA ports for a single system is equal to 8. If you will try to install 9 or more ports (no matter one-port or two-port adapters), no one will be recognized.