On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:41:15AM -0500, Josh Kuperman wrote: > I need help installing and I'm at an impasse. > > I'm trying to install debian linux in an old Dell 486, with three > AT-1500BT NICs and an old Adaptec SCSI card with two drives > attached. I'm able to get the drives recognized by giving the command > > linux aha152x=0x340,11,7 > > at the "boot:" prompt. The install goes along, but when I get to the > step to install/configure the modules so that I can complete > everything by FTP, the card is not being recognized. I get the message > "Installing module lance. If the device isn't there or isn't > configured correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to > a minute". > > The three AT-1500BT cards are configured as follows: > > Adapter 1: I/O-0x300,IRQ-5,DMA-5 > Adapter 2: I/O-0x320,IRQ-4,DMA-6 > Adapter 3: I/O-0x360,IRQ-3,DMA-7 >
According to the comments in drivers/net/lance.c (from the kernel source) the driver should automatically probe all of these io addresess and find the irq/dma automagically. Try installing it without parameters (you may have to remove those params by hand from files in /etc/modutils, or simply use "insmod lance"). Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
