Re: Installation Problems..please help..it's URGENT!

[Per Kristiansen <perk crb oslo no>]

wow!..speedy answer...

At 18:06 26.11.97 -0600, Kevin D. Colby wrote:
>>Problem:
>>No matter what kind of PCI netcard I try , the same allways happens:
>>one or both the SCSI cards conflicts with the NIC.
>>Causing the NIC to go bananas! You can see it but you can't DO anything
>>with it. Kinda sad really :)
>>
>>If I put in a old'n trusty NE2000 card, and rip out the PCI NIC, everything
>>works, but I MUST get it to work with a 100Mb card, and the last time I
>>checked , there were mighty few ISA 100Mb cards ;)
>
>Ouch.  Can you change the IRQ that the PCI net cards want by default
>using a DOS or Windows program from the manufacturer?  

Nope..I haven't seen ANY PCI card that could do this :(

>Can you set the card to _not_ be Plug-'n-Play (if it is)?  

Nope

>How about the second SCSI?

Even If I disable the second SCSI it will try to use the same IRQ as the NIC

>What do you have on IRQ 15?  Can you move the second SCSI there?

Nope, both SCSI "cards" (they are onboard) automatically assigns IRQ's


>(This would likely be done using HP software.)  Did HP give you any
>setup/boot CD for this system?  I'm not familiar with this line, but the
>NetServer line came with a "Navigator" CD that lets you boot it and
>fiddle with IRQs and such.  Have you called HP?  The HP support
>people were far more helpful than I thought they would be--even
>after they learned I was trying to run Linux.  Maybe I got lucky...
>Keep us appraised of the situation.

nope..no Navigator Cd for this line..
The HP ppl have been very cooperative, but there seems to be very little
linux knowledge over there :)

I have also done som more testing on another KAYAK system i have here , an
XA ,its a Single CPU P2-266, and that works like a charm (Except for NO
support in Xfree or AccelX for the new Cirrus Logic 5465 AGP chipset), it
even has the same kind of bios .. 
So I'm beginning to wonder if it might be the SCSI adapters on the XU that
are causing the problems.



Per Kristiansen
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