> -----Original Message----- > From: LTG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:35 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590 > > > I have been trying to install the latest GNU/Debian > release (Linux version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc > version 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Sun Jun > 25 09:24:41 EST 2000) flavor 'vanilla' on a Compaq > Prolinea 590. This machine has 98MB of RAM, a 6Gig HD > and a 3.5 inch floppy drive. I upgraded the BIOS with > the latest Compaq ROMpaq: (version 98.05.20). I have > been able to sucessfully install the base system. > > Since I do not have a CDROM drive, my plan was to > configure my PCI Ethernet card, a Linksys 10/100 LAN > Card, Model LNE100TX - which uses the tulip driver, so > that I could access Debian's packages at > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/. Unfortunately, I am > unable to get my card to work. > > I orginally tried (during my initial install of LINUX) > to install the tulip driver that came with this Debian > release, but an error message resulted saying that the > resource was busy. Incidentally, I also tried to > install the lp driver for parallel printer support, > and I got the same error message. Anyway, I yanked > out the card and moved it to the other PCI slot. I > tried a full install of linux again, but was greeted > with the same error message while trying to install > tulip: resource busy...most commonly IO or IRQ > conflict...etc. > > I subsequently hit the HOWTO's on www.linuxdoc.org, > where I read through the Ethernet HOWTO. I learned > that I should test to see if my card was even being > found. I ran dmesg | more and discovered that no > eth0 existed. Here is thye full output of dmesg : > > ---START DMESG--- > <snip>
> ---END DMESG--- > > Notice the messages that read (maybe they have > something to do with it): > > PCI: BIOS32 entry (0xc00fa000) in high memory, cannot > use. > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > > I tried to use Compaq's F10 Setup software for the > computer to configure the card properly, but to I > haven't a clue what I am doing with memory ranges and > I/O ranges: The software won't let me choose an I/O > range less than 1000 - 10FF. It also won't let me > chose a memory range less than 41000000 - 410003FF. > > DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CLUES??? MAYBE A BAZOOKA? > I had a similar problem with a compaq 486 prolinea. The problem is that the pci bios is located at a strange place. There is a utility that can relocate the pci bios code down to a place where linux can find it. I can't remember now what it's called but it should be on the compaq web site. I never got mine to work but you might have more luck. The 486 I was using had built in scsi and I couldn't even install the base system (could not find the hard disk). I assume you have to boot to dos, run this utility and then use the dos linux loader to boot into linux. hth jim > Thanks in advance, > Tim > <snip>
