Narfi Stefansson had the solution to my problem. I had to turn on the APIC in the BIOS. I did get ML 9.0 to install but I had a lot of trouble with the network plus I had a heck of a time getting some other apps to work (especially xsane). I think most of my trouble was with setting too high of a security level (msec 4) but I didn't discover that until I reinstalled ML 8.2. It was my understanding that level 4 was good if you're running servers but I couldn't connect to the servers after the install because msec placed the following line in hosts.deny:
ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.0.0.1:DENY Because cron was running msec, it wasn't effective to remark out or remove that line since the next time cron ran msec, msec would reinsert that line. So, what's the point in offering that security level if you can't access the servers?? It's a good thing I didn't use the Paranoid security setting! Also, Mandrake did some different things with the source tree beginning with ML 8.2 that my Aironet make didn't like (such as the absence of ../pcmcia-cs-<version>/). Since neither ML 8.2 nor 9.0 installed the airo driver I found that I had to manually install the airo driver that came with those 2 distros. Since Cisco is considered a "Cadillac", why isn't there better support for Cisco cards and why do I have to ALWAYS manually install the driver? This has been true since I began with ML 7.2. I have another strange problem with essid for the Aironet card. Even though I reformatted all the paritions on my SCSI drive (containing /, /usr, /var and swap) except for swap, it starts up with an essid from a different internet provider. My /home partition is on a IDE drive and that's the only partition on that HD. Since I didn't format the /home partition, I began looking for a config file there (which I didn't find any wireless config files there, of course). Entering the value using the Cisco utility software and with MCC made no difference because a reboot loaded the wrong essid again. I suppose that I'll put iwconfig <parameters> in /etc/rc.local until I get this figured out. I guess I should have deleted all the partitions on the SCSI drive and re-partition? So many problems, so little time. :-( On Sunday 17 November 2002 10:53 am, you wrote: > Did you shut off the cpu catch control in the bios? your pc might or might > not have such feature.Mine will not install if i swich the cpu pipeline on. > > Choong > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >When I press Enter to begin the install of version 9.0, my computer hangs. > > My computer is a "home brew" configured as follows: > > > >Current OS: ML 8.1 > >Mainboard: MSI K7T266-Pro2 > >CPU: AMD Athlon 1.3GHz > >Memory: 512MB PC2100 > >SCSI controller: Adaptec AHA-2940 > >SCSI HD: Seagate ST34672N > >IDE HD: Maxtor 5T040H4 > >SCSI CD-ROM: Teac CD-532S > >IDE CDRW: Creative RW1210E > >NIC (eth0): Realtec RTL-8139 > >NIC (eth1): Cisco Aironet 350 > >FD: 1.44MB > >SCSI scanner: Epson perfection 636 > >Video card: Radeon VE > >Monitor: Princeton Ultra 72 > >Mouse: Logitech M-C48 > >Keyboard: Precision KB104WINM > > > >I had difficulty installing version 8.1 onto this system also.
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