Whoops I forgot that bit. Thanks Andrew.
At 22:17 5/11/1999 +0000, Andrew Richmond wrote:
>I was having a similar problem when I first installed RH6.0. The card was
>found during the install process, but when I would try to manually assign
>the IP address it would lock the whole PC and force a reboot.
>
>The HOWTO wisely suggested making sure the card would open in DOS. It
>found it would not.
>
>After much angst I found the PC BIOS was shadowing video in the CXXX range
>the card was jumpered to be addressed.
>
>I changed the BIOS setting to not shadow in that address range and it
>would then fire right up in DOS. After that the Linux install was able to
>get past opening the adapter and complete the networking setup.
>
>My problem never had anything to do with Linux. It may not be your
>problem, but I wasn't even thinking about hardware when I was pulling my
>hair out.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Andy Richmond
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Thought up by John Pullan, Technical Officer (kinda).
Science and Technology Center.
Faculty of Infomatics, Science and Technology.
University of Western Sydney, Macarthur.
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