On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:10:49AM -0500, Mike Martin wrote: > Another update, More success > > > An update (Sucess!!!): > > After jogging some people's memory I found out that this machine has a > > PCI token ring card (which I wasn't using) because the on-board > > ethernet went flaky. This certainly helps explain my intermitent > > network, and quite possibly the short up-times before crashing. As we > > guessed - a hardware problem. > > > > Is there any way (jumper ?) to disable the onboard ethernet? I may try > > not loading the modules for it and see if the machine becomes stable. > > Would a standard PCI ethernet card work as a substitute (likely won't > > netboot)? > > I checked the machine's docs - there appears to be no jumper to > disable the onboard ethernet. However, If I simply unplug the ethernet > cable the instability seems to diappear. The machine just did a > flawless install booting from Leigh's disk, Woody root on a floppy and > base on cd-rom.
What about d-i or a debian kernel ? I will make a new upload of the powerpc kernel this weekend, and if there is a fix needed for 43P-140, i would like to fix it before that. > I have a PCI ethernet card left over from an old PentiumPro. It says > it is a 3Com "Fast EtherLink XL PCI" "3C905-TX". Would this card work > in this machine? Would it be able to netboot (doubtfull). Not sure if you need a forth-rom enabled card or not. I plugged a cheap realtek card in the powerstack, but it didn't even appear in lspci, but that was before the pci irq remapping, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther
