Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: :On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 04:39:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : When I rebooted to linux I noticed several network error [snip] : configuration tool (grrr...). The second case (1.2, Apr 97) : : Am I the only one with such an expirience? I should

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Lee Bradshaw wrote: I had a similar problem with tcpdump. After I saw it referenced in a message here I decided to see what kind of info it would print out. The info on my card (3C509) looked correct, but after running tcpdump, I couldn't connect to any other

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: The EEPROM getting scrambled is a result of drivers probing for devices on the bus that don't happen to be there, and hitting the network card instead. This happens more with the rescue disk than with a custom kernel because the rescue disk is built

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
The EEPROM getting scrambled is a result of drivers probing for devices on the bus that don't happen to be there, and hitting the network card instead. This happens more with the rescue disk than with a custom kernel because the rescue disk is built for every scsi and ethernet card we could fit in

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 04:39:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I rebooted to linux I noticed several network error messages, and ping showed Network is unreachable. Apparently the rescue disk had confused my WD8013 ethernet card. Then I booted do DOS -- and it complety hang after

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: fit in the kernel. If you can tell me about the I/O ports of your network card we can give you magic words to put on the boot command line for that device that reserve its ports and prevent other

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread jghasler
Joost writes: I think that it is however possible to fry hardware with linux: while trying 1.3 I inserted a wrong module for the cdrom interface and it fried the cdrom drive. IMHO anything that can be truly fried in this way (that is, physically damaged) is broken as designed. John Hasler

Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-12 Thread schulte
Hi, after updating my Debian box at work from 1.2 to 1.3 (with no problems) I accidently managed to lock as well my root as my user account. To repair I got the newest 1.3 Rescue Disk (resq1440.bin) from my Debian mirror, rawrite2´ed it to a floppy, booted the system using the floppy, mounted

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-12 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I had a similar problem with tcpdump. After I saw it referenced in a message here I decided to see what kind of info it would print out. The info on my card (3C509) looked correct, but after running tcpdump, I couldn't connect to any other machines. The light on my hub indicated the card wasn't