In an effort to solve my earlier reported problem with mandrake 6.1 (bug #246 - where
installation crashed during the "Loading
second stage ramdisk" section), I (at the suggestion of Chmouel), tried the current
bootnet.img and pcmcia.img files from the
cooker.
(These files don't have a version number so I can't give you one. I just got them off
a primary mirror earlier today.)
Unfortunately, I can't test the install against bug #246 using these images because I
can't get to the "second stage ramdisk"
screen. The current cooker image files do not detect my PCMCIA Linksys Ethernet card
and my installation stops at the "Pick Driver"
screen. "Linksys" isn't one of the options and NE2000 compatible doesn't work.
The interesting part is that 6.1 mandrake *does* detect and work with my card. So
something has changed in the cooker that breaks
PCMCIA card detection (at least for this card).
I an effort to gather more information, I went back and used the Mandrake 6.1 regular
install disks (the ones that *do* detect my
ethernet card, but that crash at bug #246) to try and determine what card the
installation program thought it was detecting. Since
Linksys is not on the driver list, there must be another compatible driver that 6.1 is
using. However, it never displays the
autoprobe result and I don't know how to find it.
Any ideas why cooker is no longer working with the pcmcia ethernet card?
NOTE: Redhat 6.0 continues to be my reference implementation for this machine. It
*does* detect and successfully install linux.
Machine: Toshiba Tecra 720, pentium
chris cobb
