MCA-support is turned off!!! On Wednesday 25 July 2001 18:43, you wrote: > Franz Keferbvck wrote: > > XAIPETE! I have an IPC Top H Notebook with the "famous" SiS chipset > > which is in several new laptops (gericom, ipc, ...). I had no problems > > installing Debian on it, but since I updated to woody i have a big > > problem with my SiS900 network device! The hardware is found by the > > kernel without any problem, but when the System "Configures the > > network devices" the whole boot-process stops for about a minute and > > the kernel says "Media Link Off". Then everything goes on as it should > > - but ONE minute delay on a laptop is a very long time (its being > > booted and halted several times a day!).This brehavior is new to me, > > but it appears with kernel 2.2.19pre as well as 2.4.3!Can anybody help > > me solve the problem and "speed up" my boot-time??? ThanxFranz > > Keferbvck > > Well I had a similar problem which meant that I could not use Debian > with a 2.2.19 kernel > with a sis900 on a Clevo 2700C. This was because the stock kernel was > built with MCA > support and it tried to find a serial port in the middle of the Ethernet > ioports, and thought > it had succeeded and then refused to allocate the addresses to the > Ethernet port. The > symptom was that it allocates ttyS44 at address 0x3220. This problem > has been > reported and Alan Cox has put in a fix (which might be in 2.4.7 I am not > sure, it was in > one of his 2.4.6-ac builds) which stops it looking for MCA ports if this > is not an MCA > box. > > The fix is to define a device at /dev/ttyS44 with the appropriate major > minor numbers > and then in interfaces put a "pre" command to setserial ttyS44 port 0 > irq 0 which > disables the serial port and frees the address range. > > However this may not be your exact problem. > > David ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset="us-ascii"; name="david.goodenough.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for David Goodenough ---------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
