Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 08 August 2003 11:36 am, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Greg Meyer wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? > > > It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine here, what's > > > your trouble. > > My nephew did a hd.img install yesterday, and can't ping anything on his > > local network, much less reach the internet to do updates. The built-in > > sound doesn't work either. I'm just guessing the installer botched his > > eth0 and sound configuration. I gave him necessary instructions for > > verifying /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network were properly set. > You have to pass "noapci acpi=off" to the kernel at boot time with this > motherboard. I don't think it is the KT-400, but the BIOS implementation on > the Soyo board. Hit esc at the lilo menu and type > linux noapic acpi=off > all should be well. If this does work, add "noapic acpi=off" to the append > line of your /etc/lilo.conf file and rerun lilo. If he installed as his uncle does, he prolly doesn't even know what Lilo is. ;-) I think he can handle adding that to /boot/grub/menu.lst with mc. -- "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
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