On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:01:14PM +0100, Andy Heath wrote:
> Can any of you guys help please?
Hmm, not really - but your topic 2 is similar to a problem I
can remember...
>
> I trying to install redhat 6.1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000.
> Problems I'm having.
>
> 1. Won't recognise the network card
> 3Com Megahertz 3CCE589EC
>
> 2. Sometimes after booting but before can log in the
> keyboard locks up (I don't boot straight into running X).
> (IRQ conflict?)
Maybe this is due to problems with the way redhat does
pcmcia probing. At least, there was a problem with
my satellite 2520 - and this is similar to the tecra model.
In this case you have to prevent linux from doing the
pcmcia probe; after performing the whole boot up,
you have to change /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.
If you want to know how to do that exactly, have a look at
http://student.dec.uc.pt/~humpback/linux/toshiba.html
This site has helped me a lot.
By occasion of doing this: Check out, if there are
instructions for your tecra 8000
at
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
Sorry, if all of this does not help at all.
Bye, Juergen.
>
> 3. When I do boot and get logged in the machine does a
> disk write every 5 seconds or so. This is worse when
> running X. Is this something to do with the way my particular
> drive buffers data so that a sync always causes immediate
> physical write because I have not had the problem on another
> laptop I ran linux with. I've tried using
> "update -f 300" in /etc/inittab to change the interval to longer
> but this has no effect on the problem.
>
> All advice welcome
>
> Thankyou
>
> Andy
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