Hi, I was fortunate enough to receive an IBM Thinkpad 380Z this week. The machine will dual boot NT and Debian.
However, I had little luck with the boot disks. resc1440.bin would do the looping reboot. resc1440-fast.bin would freeze after decompressing the kernel. resc1440tecra.bin and resc1440tecra-fast.bin would both give an "A20 gating failed" error after decompressing the kernel. My solution? I grabbed the 2.0.34 kernel sources, and copied .config.save to .config before I ran `make config' (guessing that .config.save was the config for the boot floppy). I then proceeded to make very minor changes, with a smaller kernel in mind (so, since this is a laptop I removed all SCSI support, for example). I left nearly ever "Module" option enabled since those are the modules on the modules disk ... I ran `make dep; make clean; make zImage', and ran the commands from "rdev.sh" (on the rescue disk) on my resulting zImage. I then copied that zImage to "linux" on the rescue floppy, and rebooted. Voila, I'm now in the midst of the install :) Now to find drivers for this 3Com Ethernet/Modem combo card (are there any? It's a "Megahertz 10/100 LAN+56K Modem", Model 3CCFEM556 B) If that won't work I'll have to find different PC Cards, I suppose. Any recommendations? I'll need an Ethernet card and a modem ... I have an "Apex" Ethernet PC Card sitting around here somewhere. I also could get my hands on a PC Card 56K modem made by USR and rebranded by IBM. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
