Re: 2.3.18ac8 experiences

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:40:55 +0100 (BST)


> a bit of a 'mare to get online (pcmcia-cs wouldn't compile, but I
> managed to use the
> kernel PCMCIA and compile just the cardmgr app to get it all working).

Thats the correct proceedure

> On the second machine (a dual PIII-450 on a Tyan motherboard) I had
> problems with the IDE if
> I enabled PIIX4 support (it detected it, then stopped with 'couldn't
> mount root FS'). Dropping
> back to generic IDE solved that one.

Do you have the ACPI option enabled

> More seriously the 3 3c905b cards in that machine all failed to work
> (all work flawlessly with 2.2.13) -
> they appeared to be receiving packets (iptables was reporting incoming
> packets), but not transmitting them.
> I also got a steady stream of eth0 timeout errors.

This I know about. Using the old driver works. I'm hoping Donald will fix
this soon - if not back we go 8)

Alan

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