On 21 Jun 99, Steven Darnold wrote :
> -> Are you referring to software that will *diagnose*
> -> any card type etc, show irq and address - and if so what -
> -
> Yes. This is done by the Slackware net.i boot disk.
> Go to ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au:21/slackware or one of the
> many other Slackware mirrors. You should find net.i and
> rawrite in the bootdsks directory. You will need both to
> create the boot disk. Once you have them, insert a formatted
> floppy and type: rawrite net.i a:
Steven,
Hey - what a great message!! Thank you for taking the time to type
these very clear instructions and details about what to look out for,
particularly what not to worry about :), I would have been quite at
loss without them!( I will take this as a *soft* introduction to Linux
:)
I found the rawrite and net.i at a mirror site closer to home,
creating the boot disk w/rawrite went just fine...
> When rawrite is finished, you are ready to go. Just stick the
> floppy into the computer (386 or better) which has the network
> card and reset (making sure that it boots a: before c:). Press
> enter when it asks for it and soon you will have a screenful of
> info about the computer. About 7 lines from the bottom there
> should be a line that begins with eth0. This line will tell you
> the type of network card and the irq/address being used.
Booting from the floppy went fine as well. The only problem is, I
never did catch the eth0 line - if present at all. The problem seems to
be this: After the initial info screen with the BOOT and hit enter, one
screen scrolls by so fast I am unable to read it. The next screen,
which halts, shows...
eth1: D-Link DE-600 pocket adapter: not at i/o 0x378
D-Link De-620 pocket adapter not identified in the printer port
TLAN: PCI BIOS not present
[...] and it continued stating the same for eth2 through eth7...
finally partition check and a prompt to insert the linux root
disk (where I just reboot. If I on the other hand hit ENTER it
reports RAMDISK: Minix filesystem found at block 0, (then) RAMDISK:
Loading 1078 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk / (---) where it finally
hangs...not finding the root disk)
Thus I totally missed the eth0 line.
First thing I tried was to check if the readme.txt I grabbed from the
same download directory had anything to say about inserting a pause
command parameter (at BOOT:), or anything else like setting the screen
mode - or redirect output to printer, but nothing.
Next, I tried to hook up the printer and hit the PRINT SCRN key when
the page scrolled by. Problem seems to be PRINT SCRN only works at the
initial screen, before and not after the BOOT. Same with PAUSE key.
As a last resort, I sat down and rebooted several times with the
floppy inserted, each time staring hard at the monitor trying to catch
what went by there - particularly if any eth0 line present - but this
proved impossible. I did this w/ both my 486 w/16MB RAM, where it
loaded very fast, and a 386 w/ 4MB where loading ramdisk and then
uncompressing Linux took forever, but once loaded - it scrolled passed
the first info page just as fast as the 486 did - making it
impossible to read. (both computer w/ 14 inch monitors) So - I am
unable to tell what I missed. I only know I did not see what I expected
to see - what you can see. The last screen contained the
information as indicated above.
Oh, I should mention: both the two computers I tested it on have
network cards installed for sure, both 3com cards AFAIK. On the 486 WfW
3.11 recognize the card during setup, on the 386 (DOS only)- well the
card executes a certain boot routine - so at boot (except when
booting from floppy) I need to press H to boot from HD - else the card
begins to scan the port for a connection - which it reports on screen.
So...any clues what to do - like if I can insert any parameters at the
boot prompt to get to see the information I most likely missed this
time? :-)
All the best,
Bjorn
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