Re: Weird problem installing Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Jason M. Harvey
the 3com i had was given to be by a friend. he told me to use irq=7, which i did need. that is true... that was the big hurdle that i had when i tried to get it working also, i can't guarentee that irq7 is what you want - he used that floopy/3com software (dos-based) to set the irq. i've never

Re: Weird problem installing Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I've gotten this problem many times w/ the Etherlink III. For some reason the card doesn't seem to work w/ debian's factory kernel in PnP mode. I hate PnP anyway, so I disable that (there's a utility to do this on 3com's site. Cameron Matheson On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 03:30, Andrew Pritchar

Re: Weird problem installing Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Steve Kieu
> It's got a 3Com Etherlink III card in it. Not a bad > card, well supported. The The best way I think is, you should compile your own kernel and modules, for your cards. First of all examine the current situation by looking at the log some where or the console when you try to insert the modules

Re: Weird problem installing Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:30:32AM +, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I've got a spare machine which I'm trying to put Debian on. It's a K6-2 450, > 128MB RAM, 10GB HD. Not a bad machine at all. I've had trouble putting Debian > on it before, and ended up using Redhat. I'd love to get Debian workin

Weird problem installing Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've got a spare machine which I'm trying to put Debian on. It's a K6-2 450, 128MB RAM, 10GB HD. Not a bad machine at all. I've had trouble putting Debian on it before, and ended up using Redhat. I'd love to get Debian working on it, cos I find Debian so much easier to use (that sounds almost bl