On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 03:59:34PM -0700, James Brown Ender/Gcc" wrote: > I'm having trouble using an NE2000 network card in Debian. > I've installed debian, alls fine, but whenever I put the network card > in (Which, btw, works fine under dos), the kernel locks up during boot. > The last thing I see before it locks up is: md MAX... and some other > stuff. > > The Install program does the same. > > Anyone know how to fix this?
Try something like linux reserve=0x300,0x20 at the LILO prompt, if the base address is 0x300; substitute as appropriate. Once it boots, recompile the kernel to have only the drivers you need. This is usually caused by non-NE2000 drivers probing the NE2000 card; using reserve stops them doing that, and since the NE driver looks at that address in particular (rather than probing) it is allowed to have it. Also, 0x300 (if you're using it) is a bit disaster prone, since a lot of cards probe there; I suggest 0x280, 2A0, 2C0, or 340. 360 is bad because it overlaps with lp1 at 0x378, and 320 may be bad if you have a MIDI adapter (eg on SB16) at 0x330. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null