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?)
>
>
> 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.
can you Alt-F2 insert a floppy and type bug ?
