Oh f*%$ f*%$ f*%$ the problem came back. Turned out that the BIOS upgrade
had fritzed my COM port settings, which made my PnP Winmodem (!) disappear,
so freeing up an IRQ, so the SCSI card and network card were no longer
sharing an IRQ. Now I've put everything back and the problem returned.
Well, I give up. I'm going to put my own kernel on the disk. But what
would be really cool (HINT HINT), would be to use Tom's .config file and
just remove the one module which is giving me problems - then I could stay
in touch with Tom's developments, and also be sure that I had a maximum
number of drivers. Any chance of the .config file becoming part of the
distribution ?
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|\ | o _ |/ Life's like a jigsaw
| \| | |_ |\ You get the straight bits
But there's something missing in the middle
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
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>Well, it's fixed now - it was the _motherboard_.
>
>It turns out that on this specific brand of motherboard (QDI), the
BIOS has
>a driver for the NCR 53Cxxx SCSI controllers built-in. And on the
BIOS
>version I had, this was causing the problem. I upgraded to the
latest BIOS
>version and the problem went away.
