Problem with DHCP when using tokenring on 2.4.x

2001-04-24 Thread mshiju
Hello, I have a problem with DHCP when using tokenring card on 2.4.x kernel . When I am using IBM tokenring adapter( all) and trying to hook on to the lan n/w using DHCP ,I get an error message "operation failed " from the dhcp client . The dhcp server is getting the broadcast message

Problem with DHCP when using tokenring on 2.4.x

2001-04-24 Thread mshiju
Hello, I have a problem with DHCP when using tokenring card on 2.4.x kernel . When I am using IBM tokenring adapter( all) and trying to hook on to the lan n/w using DHCP ,I get an error message "operation failed " from the dhcp client . The dhcp server is getting the broadcast message

kernel Oops message -2.4.x - contains ksymoops

2001-03-27 Thread mshiju
Hi, I am doing some testing on IBM Lanstreamer MCA tokenring adapter on IBM PS/2 server-9595. Inserting the driver ( as module) it is perfect. But when I do an ifconfig tr0 up then I get an kernel panic and Oops message is printed out . It occures when the function interruptible_sleep_on_t

ISAPNP :driver not recognized when compiled in kernel

2001-03-14 Thread mshiju
Hello, I have a basic question. Can we build a PnP ISA driver in kernel with ISAPNP kernel option enabled so that kernel PnP does the job of allocating the resources for the driver. The problem being that the /etc/isapnp.conf should be executed before the device driver. I tried this and

Re: Linux installation problem

2001-03-07 Thread mshiju
CDROM is detected. On booting it gives the following messages ## Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 12, lun 0 sr0: scsi-1 drive Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 # The kernel message from the virtual consol is as follows:

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2001-03-06 Thread mshiju
Hi all, I am trying to install Linux (redhat-7) on a ps/2 server-9595 machine (mca ). I am booting from a floppy disk and using a custom build 2.4.1 kernel image since there are problems booting the machine using the installation image on redhat CD and also it is not CD bootable. Th

Linux installation problem

2001-03-06 Thread mshiju
Hi all, I am trying to install Linux (redhat-7) on a ps/2 server-9595 machine (mca ). I am booting from a floppy disk and using a custom build 2.4.1 kernel image since there are problems booting the machine using the installation image on redhat CD and also it is not CD bootable. The

2.4.1 compilation error

2001-02-27 Thread mshiju
Hi all, When I compiled 2.4.1 kernel on a 2.2.14-5.0 installation (redhat 6.2) ,the following error occurred . But errno.h is there in /usr/src/linux2.4.1/include/linux/ directory. Have anyone experienced this problem. gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/spli

difficulty installing linux on ps/2 - 9595 server having pentium-90

2001-02-27 Thread mshiju
Hello, Initially I had difficulty in booting linux on ps/2 server -9595 for installation. I overcame that problem by replacing the installation boot image with a 2.4.0 custom build image . I am booting from the floppy disk since the system (old system) does not support booting from th

Info. regarding using IBM ISA turbo 16/4 tokenring adapter

2001-01-29 Thread mshiju
Hi all, I am using IBM ISA turbo 16/4 tokenring adapter. This is what I experienced in 2.4.0 kernel. On configuring the adapter using Lanaid tool , the default ROM address always falls within the video ROM area.. This was causing the system to hang-up when XWindows was started and ther

problem installing in ibm ps/2 server95 with pentium 90

2001-01-13 Thread mshiju
Hi all, I am trying to install linux on IBM PS/2 server 95 MCA machine with Pentium 90 . But it is not bootingSince it is not booting fro the CD I am booting the kernel from floppy disk with boot.img. The halts after the message "POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX". The kernel param

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2001-01-13 Thread mshiju
Can any one of you point to some good stuffs that deals with ISA device driver programming . Can we get hardware manuals for various networking cards from any site. Shiju - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plea