Re: New Hardware

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 05:32:38 -0400 James Pifer
<jamesredhatlist tnjinfl com> imparted to us:
> I bought new hardware to replace an older machine. I'm running through
> a 
> test with a different machine of just moving the hard drive(RedHat
> 7.1) to 
> the new hardware. I've run into two problems. The new hardware has PCI
> only 
> and I cannot get the NIC to work.
> 
> The old NIC was an ISA Intel EtherExpress. The new one is an Intel 
> EtherExpress Pro 100 with Wake on LAN. It's from a Compaq EN series,
> so the 
> label on the card actually says, "Compaq 10/100 PCI Intel WOL UTP 
> Controller". I'm trying to configure it using the text based
> linuxconf. 
> When I try to use the eepro100 module, I get no errors, but the NIC
> doesn't 
> work. Doing ifconfig only shows 'lo'. Since it's PCI I removed the IRQ
> and 
> Address settings from within linuxconf. If I try to use the eepro
> module, 
> it fails completely, giving an error about probing. I'm pretty sure
> I'm 
> using the right driver.
> 
> Any suggestion on troubleshooting and getting this PCI card to work?

Do what I had to do every time in 7.0 (and a couple of times in 7.1)
when I upgraded a kernel. Be sure kudzu is turned on, shut down, pull
the card, boot, make sure everything associated with the card gets
removed from everywhere, shut down, reinstall the card, boot and
configure. At least that always worked for me.

> No surprise the second problem is X. I'm trying to use an old Diamond 
> Stealth PCI video card. RedHat came up and detected the new card, but
> when 
> it tried to test the X configuration it fails and wants me to
> reconfigure 
> it. That's using their recommendations. I even tried to specify the
> exact 
> chipset on the card, Gendac ICS5342, but it still fails. Really don't
> have 
> any details on why it's failing.

Maybe it's having a problem with the monitor settings vs. the settings
it's being told to use (too high bit depth, too large of a desktop,
etc). It will fail for that if it thinks it can't set the numbers the
way it's being told to set them. Make sure it's getting the right
information. You can look into manually editting the config file
(XF86Config in /etc/X11) if all else fails. That generally requires you
to have intimate details about everything to avoid blowing things up.

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