Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[uberjon@xxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

Hi, Stuart!

On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Stuart Hall wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:55:33 PDT, you so eloquently wrote:
> >On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 12:32:29 GMT, Stuart Hall wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, I just got a utility from 3com that enabled me to identify the card.
> >It is a 3com 3c503/16 card.  The software I used did not tell me what IRQs I
> >could use, but did give me "I/O Base 300" whatever that means.

Moving right along:

> Last night I tried making a disk bzImage for a kernel I compiled just
> for the 486.

Do you, by chance mean bzdisk?  That would make more sense to me, anyway...

> So now I know the 3c503 should work perfectly.  I did get a kernel
> panic at which point the boot stopped, but probably because it bumped
> up against errors between my debian install and the kernel.
>
> So I am at least hopeful that the modules that I have will work - I
> just need to figure out how to get the bootdisk to get the module to
> load.  I even tried making a copy of the bootdisk and removing the
> existing kernel (linux) and inserting my own.

What about using a good, old-fashioned monolithic kernel?  I'm one of the
greatest proponents of modular design, but this seems like an appropriate time
for an `old school' boot disk. :)


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-=|JP|=-                   (Resident GNUbie)

Jon Pennington             | SuSE Linux 6.2
Kansas City, Missouri, USA | Kernel 2.2.10+
uberjon@xxxxxxxxx          | AMD K6-2 350

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