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.
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