Hi, I just got my first debian installation done (1.3.1), but would have needed only half the time if the following Problem hadn't occured:
I started from dos drive hda1 the rescue system and tried to configure the drivers. My ethernetcard is a SMC 8216C, etherEZ says it is on io=0x220, irq=10, mem=0xc8000 .. 0xcbfff. When I insert the module first this is recognized fine, but the message: ------------------------------------------------------ Executing module post-install script 'cdrom-symlink' script -ultra -ultra not found Executing shell_smc -ultra failed ------------------------------------------------------ appears. After menu netconfiguration (ifconfig??) I get very fast endless lines saying eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs c. (always "0 vs c"). This is on all pseudo terms, but everything seems to work despite that. (You must be fast to work with the menus from now on;-) Afer rebooting with the freshly created bootdisk same happens... 1. The ethernet-HOWTO 3.7.4 says this happens sometimes with 8390 based cards (to which mine belongs) with nexgen cpu (I used a P90). 2. Another user reported this here for an smc 8416 card with debian 1.2 and a 2.0.27 kernel..., but I found no answers. My solution: A kernel with builtin network support did the job (taken from another distribution). After building a customized kernel I hopefully can forget about this. However, since I had to install via ftp, for a linux-newcomer this would not have been nice. Michael Taeschner DLR Braunschweig: [EMAIL PROTECTED] who needs gates in a world without fences... (author ?) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
