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

[Phil Benson <pbenson carlnet org>]

Have you tried a 3com card?

At 01:35 AM 11/27/97 +0100, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
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