Very helpful, thanks. cat /proc/pci says, in abstract Device:IRQ Video card:11 3com LAN:10 Realtek (which is actually my D-link LAN, go figure):9 USB Controller:3 The on board sound and or parallel port (I think you are right, since shortly after it mentions lp0, even though I don't have a printer) aren't mentioned. By the way, after having watched it a dozen times, I can figure out that there do seem to be two errors in the insmod for the eth0 and eth1 at boot. (If anyone has a good way to see boot errors besides dmesg, I'm all ears). One of the errors is a device does not appear to be present, and the other is that the irq_param is invalid. If I do an "insmod 3c59x" as root, I can ping the internal network. However, "insmod 8130too" messes that all up, and doesn't bring up the outside network. Thank, Ry -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:11:49 -0400 From: etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port (also known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) "cat /proc/pci" say? On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: > The network cards are not next to my video card. In my bios I have the > option of turning plug and play off, but the only assigment I can seem > to do is locking the IRQ for "An ISA card". I'm not sure how that > relates to PCI slots. The other network card is a D-Link 530TX+, and > seems to need module 8130too. > > The only errors I'm getting during boot up come from insmod and don't > show up in dmesg, which is why I haven't posted them; I don't know how > to capture them. > > I also have onboard sound which is auto detected and seems to run on IRQ > 7. > (Based on the line: PnPBios Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at i:0370, > 0000 irq=7 dma =-1) > > The mother board, and most of the hardware, come from a Dell Dimension > XPS_h266 if that helps. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network > card > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:49:19 -0400 > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ryan_steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: > > I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem > > > > with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. > > > > After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network > > card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under > > Mandrake 7.0. > > > > What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the Harddrake > > > > probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to > > configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes > > blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del > > and that's about it. > > > > I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the > > detecting new hardware stage. > > > > Any advice? > > > > Ryan Steffes > > It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your > graphics > card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through > Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the > PCI > 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all > devices > comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the > network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the > assignment > of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is > next > to the video card, there is your problem. > > Civileme ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-}> *Tom Brinkman
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