Gary Brack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to install Mandrake 8 on a Dell Precision 420 machine
> with dual GHz Pentium III processors I just purchased. The machine
> comes with a 3Com 3c905C ethernet card on the motherboard. It also
> has a NVIDIA AGP card and a sound blaster live card. When I boot off
> of floppy it gives me an error message
>
> Warning that installation of driver failed. (please include msg from
> <Alt-F3> for bugreports).
>
> When I switch to Alt-F3 it says:
>
> * PCI: device 10b7 9200 is "3Com Corporation|3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink]" (3c59x)
> * Found 3Com Corporation|3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink]
> * have to insmod 3c59x
> * needs 3c59x
> * succeeded 3c59x
> * NET: alias eth0 3c59x
> * PCI: device 1011 24 is "DEC|DECchip 21152" (tulip)
> * Found DEC|DECchip 21152
> * have to insmod tulip
> * needs tulip
> * init_module: tulip: No such device
> * failed
> * warning, insmod failed (tulip(null)) (1)
> * NET: was expecting another network interface (broken net module?)
So you can install with the 3com, right?
> I tried to switch to Alt-F2 and use lspci to try to determine what it
> was detecting but F2 doesn't seem to be available until the second stage
> of the installation process.
>
> I can't seem to figure what is causing it to detect the DECchip 21152
> card? It only has the single 3c905C card.
During second stage, issue "lspci" and see.
Your PCI bus reports a Decchip 21152, so I try to insmod the driver. I
don't know why your PCI bus reports this if it's not for real!? When your
BIOS finishes to boot, are you sure it's not in the "PCI device listing"
It's likely to be an integrated network card on your motherboard. Are you
sure you don't have one?
--
Guillaume Cottenceau
