Linux-Setup Digest #661, Volume #19 Wed, 20 Sep 00 23:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Can't boot/install with HPT366 (UDMA) (Gordon Thagard)
Re: Resetting WindowMaker to Defaults (Sven Mascheck)
Re: Sharing swap space between windows and linux ("bluster")
Re: X help! (Gordon Thagard)
Re: Best time synch program for "official time" (David C.)
Re: IP Masquerading ("bluster")
Re: New Linux Install ("kosh")
Quake3 Server question(s) ("=[LKFF]=NeWY")
Re: Screw-up in Install on Win NT (ljb)
Help: SuSE6.2 installation questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
accentuate caractere ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
MySQL setup under SuSE6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SendMail "catch-all" alias? (Kenneth Porter)
Re: SuSE6.2 installation questions ("Alexander Eckloff")
Re: Sharing swap space between windows and linux (JDoe)
Re: 3c509 module not installing, help! (Douglas Cole)
Re: IBM 60G0611 LAN adapter configuration ("Curtis Rempel")
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:07:39 +0200
From: Gordon Thagard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't boot/install with HPT366 (UDMA)
# Redhat 6.2
# Abit BE-6 with onboard UDMA (HPT366)
# Latest BIOS revision (TH)
# Two UDMA disks on one controller (so, Master/Slave)
Would anyone know what parameters I should pass to the kernel
to be able to install linux? I have read the Ultra-DMA
Mini-Howto and played around with some possibilities but am having
no success. The relevant output of /proc/pci after booting in
rescue mode is:
======== cut ========
Unknown Mass Storage Controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. \
Unknown device (rev 1) Vendor id=1103. Device id=4
Medium devsel. IRQ11. Master Capable. Latency=245. Min Gnt=8. \
Max Lat=8.
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801]
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01]
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]
Unknown Mass Storage Controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. \
Unknown device (rev 1) Vendor id=1103. Device id=4
Medium devsel. IRQ11. Master Capable. Latency=245. Min Gnt=8. \
Max Lat=8.
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401]
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801]
I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01]
======== cut ========
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
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From: Sven Mascheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Resetting WindowMaker to Defaults
Date: 21 Sep 2000 00:36:48 +0200
[x-post limited to comp.os.linux.setup,
alt.os.linux.mandrake is not valid (for me)]
SM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While attempting to update [...] WindowMaker [...]I lost my pop-up menu.
> The only way for me to get out of the X shell was to turn the machine off.
No virtual consoles?
> [login again] no way to reboot. Except by turning the machine off!
Again?
> 1) Since I can log into XTerm using KDE, I'd like to restore the default
> WindowMaker setup. How can I do this?
Move ~/GNUstep/ somewhere else. You might want to restore things from
there even if files are corrupted, as most of them will be ok.
Call 'wmaker.inst' before running wmaker again to create a new
~/GNUstep/ hierarchy.
You could save your current ~/GNUstep/ ('cp -r' or 'tar') if you
have configured it again. If you ever loose it again, then put back
a copy of the backup while windowmaker is _not_ running (it won't
accept/recognize files modified (by others) in f.i. Defaults/
while running).
> If [...] don't have access to the 'Logout' option,
> if I have access to a console window, is it appropriate
> to use 'xkill'? Or is there a more suitable command?
kill wmaker itself or the process which started it
(usually this process is your 'session') e.g. a shell running
~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession or startx, etc
Killing the Xserver is the last resort.
Rebooting the last after that one... :)
Sven
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sharing swap space between windows and linux
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:40:37 -0400
I do this now with redhat6.2 and win98, and had to figure this out myself,
since the old HOWTO did me no good either.
in MSWin:
* on the desktop - right click on the "mycomputer" icon and select
"properties"
* in the "System properties" dialog - select the "Performance" tab
* in the "System properties"="Performance" dialog - select "Virtual Memory"
* in the "Virtual Memory" dialog -
- select the "Let me specify my own virtual memory settings" radio
button
- set the "hard drive" to the disk of choice (C: on my system)
- set the "minimum" and "maximum" to the same size (mine is 64MB)
(this is to set the size, and prevent dynamic swapfile
allocation)
- click "OK"
- ignore messags warning about not letting win control the swap file
in linux:
My setup has the windows C: partition mounted on /win, and MS makes a swap
file named win386.swp in the root dir of its partition, so in MY linux
system it is /win/win386.swp. To init and activate the swap file, in a root
shell I type:
/sbin/mkswap /win/win386.swp
/sbin/swapon /win/win386.swp
once I tested this and all was joyfull I then added these commands to the
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file so they would run every time linux boots.
That's it! Works like a charm for me, BTW MSWin re-init's the swap file
every time it boots so no problems there, though you need to do the same in
linux, hence the mkswap command. If I have to turn off this swap file in
linux (to unmount /win for instance) I type: /sbin/swapoff
/win/win386.swp
post a reply if you have problems with this!
bluster
JDoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I came across this ancient howto on how to share the swap
> partition between windows and linux.
>
> However, this howto is all about the 1.1.x kernel and dos 5 with
> win 3.1
>
> I have not been able to find an updated version (if one even exists).
>
> I would like to know if anyone has ever tried this (and got it to
> work) or if anyone knows of a newer version of this howto.
>
> Thanks
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:45:41 +0200
From: Gordon Thagard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X help!
I just posted myself and was wondering if there was any advice I
could possibly give, so take this with a grain of salt. I have
had X problems with RedHat 6.0-6.1 myself, often caused by xfs,
the X Font Server. I thought it was something oddball with that
level of RedHat because my problems went away with RedHat 6.2.
On the other hand, there are some things to try if this is the
right direction. I've seen xfs not start if certain filesystems
are full. You can check this with:
df -h
Look for filesystems at or near 100% usage. Then again, maybe
all you need to do is run/re-run Xconfigurator as root. It is
important that you know the details regarding your graphics
adapter like Make, Model, RAM. It is also important to have
installed the appropriate xserver for your adapter. The rpm
package on your Redhat CD, XFree86-SVGA, is usually a good
choice for starters if you have an SVGA adapter, which is likely
the case unless you bought your adapter from a museum (ie damn
my graphics card is old). In which case, the package XFree86-VGA-16
would be the xserver to install before running Xconfigurator.
If you don't have /usr/bin/X11/Xconfigurator on your machine then
you should run /usr/bin/X11/xf86config instead. Now, please re-read
that "grain of salt" bit at the top again.
Success,
Jamie wrote:
>
> I need some help getting X started with a new Red Hat 6.1
> install....After logging in as root and try to startx I get:
> Server doesn't exist, can't continue
> tried to use../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16
>
> execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno2)
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno:111
> giving up.
> xinit:Connection refused (errno111):unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> Any advice??
>
> Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.best,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best time synch program for "official time"
Date: 20 Sep 2000 19:08:00 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Beaty) writes:
>
> This master/slave setup works wonderfully. I've seen it work in
> several different installations, and each time it was a "set it, and
> forget it" installation.
Note also that most of the time, it's far more important that all your
computers be synchronized to each other than for any of them to be
absolutely correct.
-- David
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:53:12 -0400
My (working) very minimal masqerade setup is started
by running these commands:
=========== snip =============
# first flush existing rules from the foreward chain
ipchains -F foreward
# start with a default policy of DENY
ipchains -P foreward DENY
# acivate forewarding with policy of MASQ for class c subnet
ipchains -A foreward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ
# install ftp forewarding module
insmod ip_masq_ftp
=========== snip =============
once it was working I put these commands into the
/etc.rc.d/rc.local script file so they will be run every time I boot
this works for me!
> On my laptop, I have set the IP address to 192.168.0.3, the gateway to
> 192.168.0.1, dns server IPs and host name to the laptop name. As a
> domain name, I am not sure about that but I tried with my ISP domain
> name. Does it make sense?
not quite... win98 settings on the laptop are:
- IP addr is the local network address of the laptop
(192.168.0.3 looks good)
- hostname is your network name for the laptop
(add to /etc/hosts on server)
- gateway should be the local network IP addr of box that's on
the internet (192.168.0.1 looks good)
- dns server(s) should be the IP addr of your ISP's dns boxes
(unless you'r running your own dns on your network)
(look in /etc/resolv.conf on the server and use those numbers).
- domain should *not* be set to your ISP's domain, leave it blank
hope this helps!
bluster
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From: "kosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: New Linux Install
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:57:44 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "James M. Luongo"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, thanks for all the help. I have Mandrake 6 on cd, that's why I
> didn't know about grub. I was planning on downloading the 7.1 ISO from
> mandrake's website. I'll let you know if I have any problems with the
> install. I have a number of ide and scsi devices, and also 2 USB
> devices and an SB Live, i heard there was some probs with that. But
> I'll see what happens.
>
Actually I have a sblive and a usb logitech optical mouse. It detected
both of them and set them up just fine. Also have a geforce and it found
that and got it installed also. You should do pretty well.
>
> kosh wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "James M. Luongo"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I plan on installing Linux Mandrake 7.1 for the first time. I need
>> > some help. How big should the partitions be? And, I heard something
>> > about LiLo not recognizing a Linux partition after a certain disk
>> > cylinder (or sector, whatever). I think it was 1023, but I'm not
>> > sure. Is this true? Help!
>>
>> If you are installing Mandrake 7.1 just read the docs it has with it. I
>> have installed Mandrake 7.1 on many boxes and never had a problem on
>> anything more modern then a P90. It does a very good job at detection.
>> If you put the kernel where lilo can't reach grub is used
>> automatically. The mandrake 7.1 install is about the easiest linux
>> install I have ever used.
>>
>> That is why whenever I help a customer who wants to get rid of windows
>> I help them dual boot Mandrake and let them install it with me
>> watching. Usually they never ask me a single question during the
>> install. Usually I get comments about how easy it is to set up.
>
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From: "=[LKFF]=NeWY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Quake3 Server question(s)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:01:23 +0200
Heelo ALL
My server will be placed in the Amsterdam Intenet Exchange, on a 34 Mbit
line...
I want to start 4 servers from it,
1 FFA, 1 Freeze Tag, 1 TeamDM and a 1on 1 server.
I use a K6-3 450 with 256 mb RAM
Question :
The servers should start automatically,,,
I tried all sort of things, can anyone tell me how to do this,
I use RH6.2, have scripts that are made in pico, like :
cd /usr/local/games/quake3
./q3ded +set dedicated 2 +exec ffa_server.cfg +set net_port 27960
+cvar_restart
I called this file ffa_server, which is chmod-ded a+x
I can start this from commandline by ./ffa_server, and it works..
BUT, it should start automatically, and it doesn't..
And it should start 4 servers auto,
how do i do this ?
Tried using screen, doesnt work,tried making symlinks from ffa_server to
S99ffa,
then it also works, but the second doesnt start...
Anyone ?
Greetings,
=[LKFF]=NeWY
www.lkff-clan.com
Holland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: Screw-up in Install on Win NT
Date: 21 Sep 2000 00:26:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>PS I posted this earlier on the Mandrake newsgroup, and didn't get any
>advice that worked for me. I've tried lilo -u, but that didn't work.
>
>==== ORIGINAL MSG =====
>Any help will be greatly appreciated here.
>I installed Linux on a SMP system with a prior installation of Win NT. W/o
>realizing it, I installed LILO on the MBR instead of the root partition. Now
>I can't get Win NT back!!! I don't have an NT rescue disk, and I can't seem
>to be able to uninstall LILO. I even tried doing an upgrade re-install of
>WinNT. Is there any way I can get WinNT to run again without destroying
>everything I have on my NT partitions? I'd be losing almost 2 years of work
>here.
>...
I realize you want your old MBR back, but you really can use LILO instead
and have it boot either NT or Linux. That's how I do it, and I like it
better. I think the problem may just be in the "table = /dev/sda1" line in
your lilo.conf. I think it should be "table = /dev/sda". That is, it needs
to be told to find the partition table for NT at the start of your drive,
not at the start of the NT partition. Try that (careful, of course, as
always with lilo), re-run the lilo installer, and see if you can boot into NT.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help: SuSE6.2 installation questions
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:16:34 GMT
Hi,
I've installed SuSE6.2 on my pc and I'd like to
know if MySQL is installed. Is there a way to
verify this and install it if it's not already
on the system?
Also the sound does not seem to be working. I have
a standard Soundblaster AWE64 card and I thought
I don't need any special installation steps.
I'd appreciate any help with these problems.
Thanks,
Raja
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: accentuate caractere
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:35:53 GMT
in /etc/rc.d/rc.M in starting /etc/rc.d/rc.keyboard
which start this command :
/usr/bin/loadkeys cf.map
but I'm not able to issue accentuate caractere.
--
E
take the one out before replying
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MySQL setup under SuSE6.2
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:40:50 GMT
Hi,
I installed MySQL under SuSE6.2 but I'm not able to
connect to the localhost server from the KDE client.
It's a standalone pc with no network connections
setup. After doing 'Add Server' and selecting either the
localhost or the machine name as the server from Kmysql
client I get "Can't connect to MySQL ... (111)" error.
What kind of configuration would be necessary
to work with MySQL? I just need to work with some simple
SQL commands.
RM
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Porter)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: SendMail "catch-all" alias?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:12:31 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (djmiller) wrote in
<Y7oo5.92355$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Is there any way to set up the aliases so that all mail goes to one
>mailbox, no matter who it's for? Or rather, some "default" alias so
>that when someone sends e-mail to an undefined user name or alias, it
>goes to a mailbox instead of getting bounced?
Use virtusertable. The last entry in the file should be
"@domain.com<tab>localuserid" where localuserid is the name of the local
user who should receive default mail for domain.com.
I use this to catch all the misspelled names and forward them to the
correct location.
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From: "Alexander Eckloff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE6.2 installation questions
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:05:01 +0200
> I've installed SuSE6.2 on my pc and I'd like to
> know if MySQL is installed. Is there a way to
> verify this and install it if it's not already
> on the system?
I have the german version of SuSE installed (6.3 but should not differ much)
maybe it's not all the same.
You can list Your /usr/bin directory and see if there are programs like
"mysqld", "mysql" ...
just do
ls /usr/sbin/mysql*
and
ls /usr/bin/mysql*
and see what you have.
think you should at least have "mysqld"
If You don't find such files you have to install the packages.
You can also use yast to verify Your installation
start yast.
choose "Installation ***/start"
then "configuration change/***"
in section "pay" you should install the packages
"mysql" and "mysqlclnt"
if you run the command "mysql" You should get a message like this:
# mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 3.22.30
Type 'help' for help.
mysql>
... hope this helps.
> Also the sound does not seem to be working. I have
> a standard Soundblaster AWE64 card and I thought
> I don't need any special installation steps.
what type of soundcard do You have - pci or isa ?
do You use the standard Kernel from SuSE or did You
compile an own ?
Do You have any messages about Your soundsystem in Your bootmessages ?
cat /var/log/boot.msg
is there something like:
<7>Sound initialization started
<6>Found OPL3-SAx (YMF719)
<4><MS Sound System (CS4231)> at 0x534 irq 5 dma 0,1
<4><MPU-401 0.0 Midi interface #1> at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0
<7>Sound initialization complete
(these are messages for a different card of course)
for standard with no soundmessages at boottime You can try to modify the
/etc/modules.conf
for Your needs but as I'm not sure You should make a bakup of this file
first :-)
... Alex
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From: JDoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sharing swap space between windows and linux
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:32:36 GMT
Hey cool thanks!
Have you tried running Windows 98 under VMWare?
If so, does it muck up the swap file?
Cheers
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:40:37 -0400, "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I do this now with redhat6.2 and win98, and had to figure this out myself,
>since the old HOWTO did me no good either.
>in MSWin:
>* on the desktop - right click on the "mycomputer" icon and select
>"properties"
>* in the "System properties" dialog - select the "Performance" tab
>* in the "System properties"="Performance" dialog - select "Virtual Memory"
>* in the "Virtual Memory" dialog -
> - select the "Let me specify my own virtual memory settings" radio
>button
> - set the "hard drive" to the disk of choice (C: on my system)
> - set the "minimum" and "maximum" to the same size (mine is 64MB)
> (this is to set the size, and prevent dynamic swapfile
>allocation)
> - click "OK"
> - ignore messags warning about not letting win control the swap file
>
>in linux:
>My setup has the windows C: partition mounted on /win, and MS makes a swap
>file named win386.swp in the root dir of its partition, so in MY linux
>system it is /win/win386.swp. To init and activate the swap file, in a root
>shell I type:
>
>/sbin/mkswap /win/win386.swp
>/sbin/swapon /win/win386.swp
>
>once I tested this and all was joyfull I then added these commands to the
>/etc/rc.d/rc.local file so they would run every time linux boots.
>
>That's it! Works like a charm for me, BTW MSWin re-init's the swap file
>every time it boots so no problems there, though you need to do the same in
>linux, hence the mkswap command. If I have to turn off this swap file in
>linux (to unmount /win for instance) I type: /sbin/swapoff
>/win/win386.swp
>
>post a reply if you have problems with this!
>bluster
>
>JDoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I came across this ancient howto on how to share the swap
>> partition between windows and linux.
>>
>> However, this howto is all about the 1.1.x kernel and dos 5 with
>> win 3.1
>>
>> I have not been able to find an updated version (if one even exists).
>>
>> I would like to know if anyone has ever tried this (and got it to
>> work) or if anyone knows of a newer version of this howto.
>>
>> Thanks
>
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From: Douglas Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c509 module not installing, help!
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:53:31 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Here's an interesting situation:
>
> I install Redhat 6.2 via FTP and choose the 3c509 driver for the
> install. The install goes smoothly. The system reboots. Upon reboot
> the device eth0 won't install. I found the 3c509 config and diagnostic
> utilities by Donald. I used them and they worked correctly verifying
> that my card was at I/O address 0x300 and interrupt 10, and using
> 10baseT. So, I specified in conf.modules:
>
> alias eth0 3c509
> options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10
>
> and then rebooted...upon reboot I got:
>
> /lib/modules....../3c509.o insmod eth0 failed. Delaying eth0...
>
> Do I need to compile support for this into the kernel? It seems as if
> modules have been working for everyone else, can anyone help me out?
>
> -Brian
>
Yes , here is what you need to do to make this puppy work , in the
options line remove the "io=0x300" and just leave the irq=10 , it should
work great , that is what I had to finally do with that vintage of
redhat before I went to mandrake , which was a real no brainer ....
Also no need to reboot , just run "ifup eth0" and it should run
hopefully , YMMV of course ;^)
HTH
Douglas Cole
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From: "Curtis Rempel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: IBM 60G0611 LAN adapter configuration
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:01:00 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion. It turns out that the boot floppy from RedHat
6.0 works with the NE2000 driver using AutoProbe on the 60G0611 card (which
turns out to be a DP83905 AT/LANTIC chip). I found the following URL
http://www.national.com/pf/DP/DP83905.html which says that it is "compatible
with Novell's NE2000/Plus industry standard Ethernet Adapters")
For whatever reason, the 6.2 boot floppy is less intelligent.
Curtis
"Valentin Guillen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If all else fails, open the case, pull a card out, and look at the main
> chipset on the card. Then research thepart number on the chip.
> Usually, any brand/model of NIC which uses the same chipset would use
> the same "driver" and you could, when installing/configuring the card,
> specify one of these other more popular cards which use the same chip.
>
> Good Luck,
> Valentin Guillen
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