Greetings, I sent this yesterday but never saw it appear on the list or in the archive, so I'm assuming something went wrong.
I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old 486dx4/100 with 32 MB of RAM, 2 GB of scsi disk, and a tulip-based PCI ethernet card. This is an Asus SP3g-based machine. Installing from the base disk set went fine. When the system rebooted after the base install the network was not visible. I noticed that the light on the back of the ethernet card was out. Upon investigating some more I noticed that the light is on when the tulip driver is loaded, and goes out when the first 'ifconfig' is done. Ifconfig returns "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable". If I remove and re-'insmod' the tulip driver the link integrity light reappears. but the first 'ifconfig eth0' does the same thing. I even tried downloading and installing the latest tulip driver. I'm pretty sure the card is not dead because I swapped it with a known good card and I see the same symptoms. Any suggestions appreciated. -- | Charles R. (C. R.) Oldham | NCA Commission on Schools | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Arizona St. Univ., PO Box 873011,| | V:602/965-8700 F:602/965-9423 | Tempe, AZ 85287-3011 _ | | "I like it!"--Citizen G'Kar | #include <disclaimer.h> X_>|
