Steven J. DeNeefe wrote: > mcd=0x300,10: Init failed. No mcd device at 0x300 irq 10. > > It continues to display messages that look normal (similar to the ones > shown in the Installation Manual at www.debian.org) until it bets to > the message: > > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP > > Then it hangs. The next message I would expect to see would be > something about my ethernet card (a NE2000 compatible card)...the next > line shown in the Manual is: > > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 40 05 15 d0 77
>>From a mail I posted to debian-user a few weeks ago: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize if this should not be sent to the bugs address. > After having difficulty with redhat I downloaded the boot, root and base > disks. On booting it stops at the line: > IP Protocols ICMP UDP TCP > > I have a Packard Bell Pentium with a N2000 clone ethernet card. > I am assumed my ethernet card was not being found. The problem is indeed the N2000 card. If a different driver touches the I/O base of the ne2000 it will hang the system bus. You can avoid it by adding the correct address at the boot prompt. Just type linux ether=11,0x340,eth0 at the (boot disk) boot prompt (if your N2000 card uses IRQ 11 and I/O-address 0x340). You can later add it to your lilo.conf file. Just add the line append="ether=11,0x340,eth0" to your lilo.conf file and rerun lilo. Or if you use it as a module just add options ne irq=11 io=0x340 to /etc/conf.modules. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias EMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany
