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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: SCSI kernel and NE2000 card: bad combination.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.225938.9881@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:59:38 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- (Whining time again.)
-
- Will someone please put a NON-SCSI kernel on the various ftp sites?
- A Linux SCSI kernel WILL NOT boot if an NE2000 Ethernet card is installed
- with its default settings. It just hangs in the SCSI initialization
- code.
-
- Here's what I have to do to install Linux:
-
- 1. Take the cover off the computer.
- 2. Change the I/O address of the NE2000 card to something that isn't
- already used by a device. (Too lazy to remove yet another screw!)
- 3. Install Linux, including GCC and the kernel source.
- 4. Rebuild the kernel WITHOUT SCSI support.
- 5. Change the I/O address of the NE2000 card to its original settings.
- 6. Put the cover back on the computer.
-
- A lot of software expects to find the NE2000 card at its default settings,
- so permanently changing the settings is not an option for some people.
-
- I don't have a lot of disk space, so I sometimes have to give up my
- Linux partition. By the time I switch back to Linux, it is easier to
- catch up by installing the latest SLS distribution. Having gone through
- the above steps (and complaining about it) a few times since August, I'm
- not looking forward to doing it again.
-
- --
- * James L. Henrickson
- * ujlh@sunyit.edu
- *
- * Unix/C/shell/sys admin/TCP-IP work wanted in DE/MD/NJ/NY/PA.
-