Installing Linux on a Pentiom 100MHz 24MB Ram Compaq Desckpro 5100 I
have this problem:
The autoprobe cannot detect the embedded Ethernet driver (a PCI
AMD79C970 IRQ=11 ADDR=0x1000)
Further investigations proved same errors occurred during PCI
initialization.
Here are reported the errors appeared on the screen and into the
syslog files
pcibios_init: BIOS32 Sevice Directory structur at 0x000fa000
pcibios_init: entry in high memory, unable to access
pci_init: no BIOS32 detected
In order to workaround the problem, we tried to compile the kernel
with a modified version of lance.c including the 0x1000 base address.
Such a modified kernel caused the PC crash during initialization
when on console appear:
eth0: PCnet32 at 0x1000,00 80 5f 4a 67 29
-- --------------------------------------------Antonio Soreca mailto:antonio.soreca@cisi.it