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

[Per Kristiansen <perk crb oslo no>]

At 17:32 27.11.97 -0600, Werner_Kliewer MPIC mb ca wrote:
>Per,
>
>You say in some of your other posts that you cannot change the IRQ's of the
>SCSI controllers. You should still be able to change the IRQ of the network
>card. 

Unable to do that also, the NIC is a PCI 10/100PCFast(SMF) card, snf I
hsvrnt found any utilities to change the IRQ.

>If that is what you did to get linux working, but then have to change
>it back for Win95/NT etc., Try this. Change it to the appropriate IRQ for
>Linux. Then delete all references to it and all drivers for it from
>Win95/NT. Then let them re-discover the card (or even add it in manually)
>with the new IRQ setting. All systems should be able to use the new IRQ.

what I did to get Linux to work was inserting an extra NIC, a really old
NE2000 compatible one, one that allowed you to change IRQ's

And no matter what I do in W95/NT, it has NO impact on what happens when I
try to run linux.

darn!...this thing is driving me crazy.

I'm starting to beleive that it is the bios for the SCIS adapters that has
a problem, since I was able to install Linux on a Kayak XA without any
problems,
and it has a single SCSI controller onboard instead of two.

If only I could rip one of those controllers out .. 

>----------
>> From: Per Kristiansen <perk crb oslo no>
>> Newsgroups: linux.redhat.install
>> Subject: Installation Problems..please help..it's URGENT!
>> Date: Wednesday, November 26, 1997 4:49 PM
>> 
>> Hi..
>> 
>> I'm testing the new HP Kayak PC's with Linux RedHat 4.2 and have bumped
>> into some problems:
>> 
>> but first some data:
>> 
>> Hardware:
>> 
>> HP KAYAK XU Dual P2-300 64Mb ram 
>> 1 Adaptec 7860 v1.32S2HP(onboard)
>> 1 Adaptec 7880 v1.32S2HP(onboard)
>> 1 AMD 79C970 Lance Net 
>> 1 Matrox II AGP 4Mb
>> 
>> MotherBoard:
>> HP's Own
>> 
>> BIOS:
>> PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0.
>> BIOS version:HB.11.07US
>> 
>> 
>> Software:
>> Redhat 4.2 with kernel 2.0.32
>> 
>> Startup:
>> Found PCnet/PCI at 0xfca0, irq 11
>> eth0: PCnet (unknown) at 0xfca0 00 60 b0 a1 9c b5 assigned IRQ 11, no DMA
>> needed
>> lance.c:v1.09 Aug 20 1996 dplatt 3do com, becker cesdis gsfc nasa gov
>> 
>> Then the 7860 reports:
>> IRQ 10
>> 
>> Then the 7880 reports
>> IRQ 11 (same as net card)
>> 
>> 
>> 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 ;)
>> 
>> so to put it short...
>> HELP!!!!!
>> 
>> 

Per Kristiansen
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