Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Rob Green wrote:

> Probing PCI hardware
> Warning unknown PCI device (1039:5107) please read include/linux/pci.h
> 
These warnings as far as I know are harmless as i have been told. O get
lots of them but my system continues to work fine.
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Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Bruce Perens
It's possible this device is in the development kernel.

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Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Bruce Perens
I guess you don't get to the menu? The message would not be fatal in itself.
Is that the last statement the system prints, and does it hang after that?

If your BIOS lets you disable plug-and-play and set fixed interrupts
for your devices, do that.

Thanks

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Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Sten Anderson
"Rob Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello tried to install Debian the other nite.
> I have partitioned my drive 750-250Mbs for debian on the 250Mbs
> I boot the rescue disk and it starts install
> then it reaches this error message
> 
> Probing PCI hardware
> Warning unknown PCI device (1039:5107) please read include/linux/pci.h
> 
> As i have not installed it yet i cannot read this file..

The file is not exactly overloaded with comments. Practically the only 
useful comment is a description of how to report new devices (shown
below). 

A simple search in the file revealed this section:

#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI0x1039
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_6201   0x0001
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_6202   0x0002
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_6205   0x0205
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_5030x0008
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_5010x0406
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_4960x0496
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_6010x0601
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_5511   0x5511
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_5513   0x5513

My guess is that one of 

> Silicon Integrated System PCI to ISA bridge
> Silicon Integrated System Pentium(r) to PCI bridge (original)

is currently unsupported (the mysterious 5107). 

Perhaps you should post your problem to comp.os.linux.development.system 
That is apparently where the kernel hackers hang out, when they are
not busy writing PCI drivers. 


- Sten Anderson


/*  PROCEDURE TO REPORT NEW PCI DEVICES
 * We are trying to collect information on new PCI devices, using
 * the standard PCI identification procedure. If some warning is
 * displayed at boot time, please report 
 *  - /proc/pci
 *  - your exact hardware description. Try to find out
 *which device is unknown. It may be you mainboard chipset.
 *PCI-CPU bridge or PCI-ISA bridge.
 *  - If you can't find the actual information in your hardware
 *booklet, try to read the references of the chip on the board.
 *  - Send all that to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 *and I'll add your device to the list as soon as possible
 *
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 * to be sure it has not been recently added.
 *
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Problem Installing Debian Linux

1997-11-16 Thread Rob Green
Hello tried to install Debian the other nite.
I have partitioned my drive 750-250Mbs for debian on the 250Mbs
I boot the rescue disk and it starts install
then it reaches this error message

Probing PCI hardware
Warning unknown PCI device (1039:5107) please read include/linux/pci.h

As i have not installed it yet i cannot read this file..
I am trying to install Debian on my Laptop (IPC model 6400AD)

below i am including what i have for a system:
Power Management
Direct memory Access controller
Motherboard resources
numeric data processor
PCI bus
Plug and Play (plug and prey) BIOS
Programmable Interrupt Controller
Silicon Integrated System PCI to ISA bridge
Silicon Integrated System Pentium(r) to PCI bridge (original)
System Board
System Board extension for PnP BIOS
System CMOS/real time clock
System Speaker
System Timer

all this is running under Win95b right now

Could someone please assist me in installing Debian Linux
Thank you very much
Rob Green
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