I recently experienced the same message. Background: I was having trouble getting isa soundcard and isa nic to work at same time even though I thought they wer using diff resources. I had everything using the sames resources that windows used (I installed windows for about 5 min just to see the configuration.) 'cat /proc/ioports; cat /proc/interrupts' did not show any confilicts. Anyway I blindly hacked something that worked. A couple days later, any time sound was to be used, the machine locked hard (see prev post). Similar problem: I decided to doa clean reinstall using the newer version of hail (2.06). I received the same error message as you did when trying the test install. What I did? I removed both isa cards and set the one into jumperless mode and left the soundcard as PnP as they have a lot more resources to configure than a nic. I then replaced both cards, and ran the DOS resource setting utility for my nic. I have a StarTech card, which I think makes RealTek or vice versa. Anyway, the utility alerted me that the card could not use irq 11 b/c something else was using it! Neither windows control panel, nor cat /proc/interrupts had shown this? Anyway, I used another irq. Tried install. It worked!! What is purpose of long winded story? I am told windows does not mind sharing irq's (until it crashes). Linux ran my nic with a conflicting irq and ioport for 2 months without a hitch. Moral of the story is: don't assume everything is peachy with your hardware. Do some investigation of your base mem io, and irqs. Somebody please let me know if my sol'n was a fluke and I giving bs advice, but this is how it played out for me. -- ...elbows out, stick on the ice! _______________________________________________ Stormlinux-users-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stormix.com/community/lists/listinfo/stormlinux-users-list
