In my experiences with the install of Mandrake Complete 7.0 the PNP
should be set to disable in the CMOS prior to doing the install.
don
I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:52:37 -0500 "Art Richardson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To everyone on the list
>
> First, I would like to thank everyone who replied to my
> post. You help was
> very much appreciated and I was able to solve two of my problems so
> far.
> Secondly, when I wrote that post I was frustrated about my inability
> to
> solve my problems. I like to consider myself somewhat technically
> proficient
> and can usually solve the problems that I have come across. However,
> this
> was in Windows and I guess that it's so dumbed down anyone can
> figure it
> out. Linux is not like that, as you all know. Several years ago I
> had a 133
> running Slackware. I never could get any form of x running but
> further
> experimentation was put on hold due to a divorce. I had read several
> articles complimentary to the Mandrake distribution. I went out and
> bought
> the 6.5 version and got everything going except the nic card. I was
> amazed
> that it went so well! But as hard as I tried, I could not get the
> blankety -
> blank nic card running. I checked 3Com and their documentation was
> oriented
> toward the PCI version and not the ISA version which I have. I tried
> the Don
> Becker page and really didn't understand it to well except it seemed
> to
> imply that I needed to add a driver and recompile the kernel.
> Not wanting to do that I thought that I would just upgrade to 7.0
> and maybe
> that would cure my nic card problem. I have a cable connection and I
> downloaded the distribution from a Mandrake FTP mirror. After
> several tries
> to install it, I got it to install. Once again the install could not
> find
> the nic card. It was listed in the install configuration setup but
> no joy.
> This is when I went off the deep end and wrote my now infamous post.
> I got a
> lot of great information. To solve the logging out problem and the
> Draxconf
> not installed, I just reinstalled the distribution again and this
> time I
> used the expert mode. I set x not to start at login and Draxconf
> installed
> ok.
> You all know what is coming next. That's right, no nic card. So
> after
> visiting several newsgroups and re-reading the posts to this list I
> edited
> the /etc/conf.modules file. I added the line Options 3c509 io=0x210
> irq=9
> I got the parameters from windows and again no joy. I am at the
> point where
> I am going to disable the PnP setting on the card. If this does not
> work I
> am going to check the supported cards at the Redhat site and get
> another
> card.
> Again, thanks for not flaming me too much. I'll let everyone know
> how it
> went
>
> Art
>
>
>
>
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