Re: [Alug]Unfriendly A7N266-VM motherboard - was rtl8139 aha moment
Adam Bower wrote:
I still think my boss did this as a "challenge" you couldn't get a less supported x86 motherboard if you tried (I suspect anyhow) and I may well give up on the onboard ethernet and just use a different PCI nic instead and may reccomend you do the same too. At least if you do that it will work ok with Debian and getting the thing online to upgrade will not be so difficult.
I was so heartened by this that I stuffed in an old NIC that was lying around, got networking going, and things are looking up. Unfortunately when I then upgraded to a later kernel (2.4.19 from 2.4.18-bf2) I lost the networking again :-) The first kernel image wouldn't boot at all as it seemed to be trying to mount "root=3:01" rather than /dev/hda1? For all that onboard not-worky stuff I found a driver package on nVidia website, NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz but keep getting make errors. I don't even know if it contains the correct drivers. Adam - have you tried this? So no XWindow (essential for the job this computer is required for) and only networking with one kernel image so far. Also can't find anywhere in BIOS to turn off either PnP OS or the onboard NIC. I'm about to waste a bit more time this morning doing a 2.4.20 build. Adam - I think your boss did this because the computer is currently on offer at a bargain price at Cambridge Computers - that's how come I ended up being bought one. The subsequent amount of hours at my hourly wage trying to get it working could have brought one twice as expensive and still been cheaper for them :-) Jenny
I was so heartened by this that I stuffed in an old NIC that was lying around, got networking going, and things are looking up. Unfortunately when I then upgraded to a later kernel (2.4.19 from 2.4.18-bf2) I lost the networking again :-) The first kernel image wouldn't boot at all as it seemed to be trying to mount "root=3:01" rather than /dev/hda1? For all that onboard not-worky stuff I found a driver package on nVidia website, NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz but keep getting make errors. I don't even know if it contains the correct drivers. Adam - have you tried this? So no XWindow (essential for the job this computer is required for) and only networking with one kernel image so far. Also can't find anywhere in BIOS to turn off either PnP OS or the onboard NIC. I'm about to waste a bit more time this morning doing a 2.4.20 build. Adam - I think your boss did this because the computer is currently on offer at a bargain price at Cambridge Computers - that's how come I ended up being bought one. The subsequent amount of hours at my hourly wage trying to get it working could have brought one twice as expensive and still been cheaper for them :-) Jenny _______________________________________________ Hi, The module you need is nvnet from the driver package you have, it all works fine under SuSE for me, Gentoo was even better. The drivers for the video card also work fine with this m/board. This of course is with the stock SuSE athlon kernel, obviously yours could be more problematic, under gentoo the best kernel is the gaming kernel - 2.4.20 I think. Hope this helps Andy
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:06, Andrew Cartwright wrote:
- I think your boss did this because the computer is currently on offer at a bargain price at Cambridge Computers - that's how come I ended up being bought one. The subsequent amount of hours at my hourly wage trying to get it working could have brought one twice as expensive and still been cheaper for them :-)
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At the meeting yesterday there was talk about backups, well, I've tidied up my backup script and slapped it on: http://www.wbh.org/code/snapback-1.0.tar.bz2 It only backups up mounted LVM volumes, to a removeable drive, and splats one partition for use as its snapshot space - use carefully! Oh and also, I worked out when I first used Linux. My first year Uni, between Christmas and Easter. 1993. Ten years of Linux!
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