Re: [seul-edu] booting linuxrc - network fails?

[Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:39:59PM -0400, Ryan Booz wrote:
> It's been a while since I've even had time to keep up with the list, but
> things are busy as always here.  I'm trying to use a program that allows
> "ghosting" over UDP to get some machines up and running.  It comes with
> a modified Suse Linuxrc disk.  Kernel seems to boot ok, but when I put
> correct network card module in, it says it was successful in loading,
> but the network card "goes dead".  The instant I load the module, the
> lights go out on the card.  I've looked all day and tried numerous
> things, but nothing.  These are Dell P100t dimensions that were just
> donated to us.  My thought was that it's a PCI auto configure problem or
> something, but there's no way in the BIOS to even turn PCI off.

PCI is your friend. You don't want to turn it off.
 
> Any thoughts on what I need to do?  I would really appreciate anything
> you could throw out.  Maybe this won't work when all is said and done,
> but it's worth the try.  I was about to resort to doing some disk image
> stuff to get system installs - so I may just end up going back that
> direction.
 
What kind of ethernet cards? (What does dmesg say when the kernel boots.)

Have you successfully gotten networking working on them when you're
booting like normal? (Or are they missing drives or something, which
makes that tougher.)
 
--Roger