Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

Looks okay. Please to boot with this image, dumped on a floppy disk. If this kernel does not recognice your card, something is broken. http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf-ext3/udma100-3.0.13cvs/resc1440udma100-ext3.bin I've tried your booting floppy. After pressing , I couldn't find SiS 900

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

> Do you mean I have to install 2.4.x kernel and download the latest sis900 > module? 2.2.15 and later kernel seems to support sis900. But I will upgrade > my system anyway - I don't have any better idea. > No, I mean use the one that ships with 2.4 and you will have no difficulty. At least

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

I had a similar experience trying to set up a Clevo 2700C. There are several versions of the sis900.o module floating around, and the only ones that work are the 2.4.x kernel ones. As far as I can tell for many 900s the old module does not work properly, and the new module is 2.4 only. D

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

Right, PCI is plug-and-play, no manuall options to set. And where do you have this options from? After I typed "modconf", selected "net" and "sis900", modconf asked me to enter any command line arguments for sis900 module. It also said that most devices can be autoprobed. Why not include th

Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

Hi all, I have a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter installed on my computer but I have no idea how to install the module properly. I am using Debian Potato 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19pre17. When I select sis900 module from "modconf"->"net", insmod complains that the selected device or resource

Re: Building and installing gcc-3.0

Thank you for all those who have given my advice. I decide to build gcc-3.0 from tar ball in /usr/local/. But as the older version of gcc reside in /usr/bin and gcc-3.0 reside in /usr/local/bin, I will have two different versions of gcc in my path. Should I specify the binary directory in con

Building and installing gcc-3.0

Hi all, I want to build and install gcc-3.0 on my Debian "potato" 2.2r3. I have downloaded gcc-3.0.tar.gz. If I simply type "configure", "make" and "make install", would Debian realize that gcc has been upgraded? If not, what should I do? For some reasons, I don't want to apt-get it from the

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I'm a Debian newbie. When I use Gnome Dialup Utility (gnome-ppp) to dial to my ISP, I receive an error message saying that "pppd daemon died unexpectedly". I'm sure the configuration for gnome-ppp is correct. Is there anything wrong with pppd? How can I fix the problem?