RESOLVED: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment

2002-11-07 Thread Robert R Baer
First, thanks to all that responded with comments and suggestions - they were all good! I've learned plenty about the boot process, kudzu, and most importantly: the various places you can go to find help for Linux. Turns out the solution was on the Scyld web site in the section describing how to

RE: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment

2002-11-05 Thread Lanny Marcus
> Message: 11 Subject: RE: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and > IRQ >assignment To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Robert R Baer" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:29:54 -0500 Reply-To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lanny, > Thank you very much for

Re: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment

2002-11-05 Thread Robert L. Cochran
wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert R Baer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: RE: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment We have a Circuit City fairly close - I'm going to ca

Re: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment

2002-11-05 Thread Mike Chambers
- Original Message - From: "Robert R Baer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: RE: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment > We have a Circuit City fairly close - I'm going to ca

Re: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment.

2002-11-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:16:43PM -0500, Robert R Baer wrote: > > Everything else on the system is correctly identified and works. > There is very little hardware, and several IRQ's are free, so this > shouldn't be a problem. > > Anyone have an idea on what to try next? Its a BIOS related

Re: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment.

2002-11-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:35:23AM -0500, Robert R Baer wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. I agree that it's probably related to the BIOS. > Although it's a Phoenix BIOS, it is in an HP box, and they seem to have > stripped the vast majority of the normal options out to either dumb it down > or cut

RE: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment.

2002-11-05 Thread Cochran Robert L (NO)
Title: RE: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment. In your BIOS setup set 'Plug and Play OS' to 'No'. Save changes and exit the BIOS. Do you have SCSI cards plugged in? If so remove them temporarily to see if you can get the network card working.

RE: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment

2002-11-05 Thread Robert R Baer
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Re: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment.

2002-11-05 Thread Robert R Baer
27;t need to know about things like modprobe, insmod, demesg, interrupts, etc. At least it's been fun. Bob Message: 11 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:58:37 -0500 From: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignmen

Re: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment.

2002-11-04 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:16:43PM -0500, Robert R Baer wrote: > > Everything else on the system is correctly identified and works. > There is very little hardware, and several IRQ's are free, so this > shouldn't be a problem. > > Anyone have an idea on what to try next? Its a BIOS related probl

RE: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment

2002-11-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
Robert: I installed Psyche on our Dell Dimension 4300 (P4 1600 MHz) last night. It has one of those problematic Netgear FA311 PCI NICs in it. In my case, it installed out of the box and came up immediately on our home LAN. However, this afternoon, when I switched from MS Win ME to Psyche, I had t

Re: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment.

2002-11-04 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
However, I do remember that Netgear released a statement awhile ago saying that some of their FA311 cards identify as FA312's and that there is a BIOS update on the site that fixes it. This was only one particular batch, yours may not be in that batch. Hope this helps anyways. -- Jonathan On Mon,

Re: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment.

2002-11-04 Thread Keith Morse
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Robert R Baer wrote: > I noticed that others have this problem, but haven't seen any suggestions > to try or eventual successes mentioned yet. > > Kudzu correctly identifies the NetGear FA311 NIC according to pci, but when > trying to configure it and bring it up, gives the er

Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment.

2002-11-04 Thread Robert R Baer
I noticed that others have this problem, but haven't seen any suggestions to try or eventual successes mentioned yet. Kudzu correctly identifies the NetGear FA311 NIC according to pci, but when trying to configure it and bring it up, gives the error message Unable to find IRQ for pin 1 of device..