I have an interesting Ethernet problem. I'm on Potato, dually set up -- on two different HDDs with a Win98 box. I use loadlin to boot me up to linux, so I actually have a windows menu-bar item to bring me into linux. It's the way I like it, since I *worry* about dual-boot systems when you have to reinstall one system or the other. Win98 is my main boot.
Under Windoze, my ne2k-pci Ethernet registers INT 10, mem 0x1c00. I also have a sound card -- I'm not sure if it works, since my speakers don't, but it also registers to INT 10 without apparent conflict [and a SCSI card, which works under Windoze, but is not currently identified under Linux.] So far, so good. I'm new to Linux, I don't really need more than all that, and as I learn more I can set things up on my own. I have what I need at the moment, anyhow. Here's the problem: I also have Norton AntiVirus on the Win98 side, and ZoneAlarm firewall. I just downloaded and ran their most recent updater, and all of a sudden two problems cropped up: (1) Win98 suddenly started taking *real* long on the Antivirus stage, perhaps 1 time out of 3. (2) My ethernet card stopped responding under Linux only. I looked back at the bootup, and saw that it was taking INT 0, and was saying that this was unlikely to work. So I hacked around, and discovered that linuxconfig would allow me to set the INT on my card. So I did that. Everything was fine, I was back on the web. Three bootups later, I again got no card, INT 0 ... coincident with FSCK running on every one of my partitions, saying something about it being a regular process (some variable was maxed out). Win98 still detected the card. But when I did a floppy boot under Linux, I got the card again. So I went back and changed it again, and just checked the file with the ETH0 options, and it's fine again. What's going on? Why does the bootup process keep reverting to INT 0? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
