From: "joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Michael Hahn wrote: > > >First, thanks for the advice about how to get a shell instead of a KDE > >session. Worked like a charm. > > > >Second, the box I'm planning to use as a server is a HP pavilion 503n, which > >has a RTL8139 Nic included in the motherboard. I've been trying to get the > >machine up on the network, but each time I boot up, the eth0 check comes up > >failed. After some searching, I found that I'm not the only one who has had > >problems with this particular nic chipset. The search finally lead me to > >this page: http://www.scyld.com/rtl8139.html, however, I'm not sure about > >using those drivers, as they specify that they are good up through the 2.4 > >kernel. Does anyone know how to get this nic to work? > > > > > > > > Try turning off hotplugging, it has given me trouble before, i think with that chipset.
Actually, I got it up and running. I reinstalled with noapic, and it came up just fine this time.
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