On Sat, 29 May 2004 18:44:46 +1000, Brendan Dacre wrote > Gentlepeople, > > I have a QDI Alacritas 520-K8 AMD 64 based notebook. I have loaded > Woody r0 bf2.4 kernel from CD and no networking came up automatically. > > I manually loaded the via-rhine driver for the on board network chip > but dhclient times out and I can get no network connection. > > I have successfully got the Gentoo AMD 64 live cd to boot (using the > emachines kernel) and auto detect and connect using the via-rhine > driver (but that attempted installation has other problems which are > OT in this list). > > The networking also failed in Mandrake v9.2.
.... > > Other info: > > Chipset: VIA K8T800 + VT8235A3 > Graphic ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 > Gentlepeople, When comparing the ifconfig output from Mandrake v9.2, Debian and Knoppix (not working, IRQ 16) and Gentoo AMD64 (working, IRQ 9), I decided to try and force the other distributions to use IRQ 9. Finally by trial and error I got this to work on Knoppix with the noapic kernel option which also worked for Debian. So now I am finally on-line. Next getting sound working... Brendan -- Mail.OnMyWeb http://mail.onmyweb.net - Powered by Accsoft
