I have a PIII dual processor system that is doing strange things with the LiveCD. I downloaded the x86 LiveCD iso which works with anything per the install docs. In fact I've used the CD on a dual AMD Athon system.
On the PIII system the CD boots to the root prompt. However, there are some strange things. The system is an Asus CUR-DLS board with the Serverworks LE 3.0 chipset. Bios is at current level. 1. It loads the aironet4500_proc and aironet4500_core modules (network card evidently) even though dmesg shows that the probe found no card. After boot I can load the e100 module for the Intel 82559 ethernet controller (on board) and the eth0 card works. What is the aironet4500 and why would Gentoo load it - bad guess at the type of card? 2. If I modprobe -r the aironet modules ifconfig shows the eth0, lo, and a sit0 interfaces loaded. Whats tht sit0 interface? 3. The system has an Adaptec 3210s RAID card that works - on boot I can go to the card's bios and see all the drives. However, if I do a modprobe dpt_i2o I get an error message that says no such device and tells me it might be because of bad parameters. dmesg shows only that it loads the I2O RAID controllers and tries to detect them. On the AMD system the module loaded with no problems - using the same CD. modprobe -v dpt2_i2o tells me it's using /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs_pre2/kernel/drivers/scsi/dpt2_i2o (the file does exist) and that the symbol version is smp_. Then it tells me no such device. What do I do next to fix it? I don't see why it can't find it. I assume the x86 will work on the PIII Coppermine - docs say it's supposed to run on anything. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
