Re: Internet nic on Compaq Deskpro 486
Paul Gortmaker (paul@rasty.anu.edu.au)
Wed, 8 Jan 1997 23:58:13 +1000 (EST)
>
> I am having a problem getting Linux to recognize the internal network
> adapter, which I believe should work with the AMD driver.
>
> The only thing I can find, after trying several variations on what
> drivers I put in the kernel, is that it appears that the problem may
> be due to the kernel not being able to work with the PCI bus. During
> bootup, it mentions something about finding PCI data sturcture at a
> certain address, then says not able to access PCI in high memory. I
> believe the internal NIC is attached via the PCI bus, but so is the
> internal video adapter, which it sees just fine.
>
> Any comments or assistance?
Covered in the Ethernet-Howto, in the Compaq section.
<sect2>Compaq Deskpro / Compaq XL (Embedded AMD Chip)
<p>
Status -- <em/Supported/
Machines such as the XL series have an AMD 79c97x PCI chip
on the mainboard that can be used with the standard LANCE
driver. But before you can use it, you have to do some
trickery to get the PCI BIOS to a place where Linux can
see it. Frank Maas was kind enough to provide the
details:
<snip>
Grab a copy to read the full solution.
Paul.