On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:36:29AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote > Hello, I will try this question again without the attempt at humor... > > I upgraded my slink system to potato using dselect 3-4 days ago. After > the initalruns through dselect/install/config/remove there weretwo > problems still being reported. > > #1 the gcc deb file would not load because of a conflicht with an old > libg++. > #2 setserial would not configure. > > I removed the old libg++272 (I think that was its name) and gcc seemed > to install fine. > > The error messages during the configureation of setserial said that my > modules needed to be updated and to run > "update-module force" and run configure again. Well, I did this and the > above listed fix and now my network card is no longer detected. (Note: > I noticed the problem after I rebooted the system so I am not sure > exactly what is causing this. > > I looked in my /var/log/kern.log file and found these differences before > > and after the reboot. > > The last line in this file has the line (note: the *date systemname* is > acutially the date time and systemname at the time of the reboot. I > just didn't feel like typing it all in each time). > > *date systemname* kernel: ne.c No PCI cards found. use "io=0xNNN" values > > for ISA cards. > > Prior to the problem (earlier in the file) I had the following: > > *date systemname* kernel: ne.c v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becher (*email > address*) > *date systemname* kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300 00 50 4e 03 8b > > d6 > *date systemname* kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300 using IRQ 3 >
With slink, the way in which /etc/conf.modules is maintained has changed; previously you (and any installation scripts that needed to) would edit /etc/conf.modules directly, which is a real pain (especially for scripts); now snippets are stored in /etc/modutils/, and update-modules uses them to re-build /etc/conf.modules. See /usr/doc/modutils/ for full details, but you probably want to add a file with a descriptive name like 'ne' to /etc/modutils, and place the line options ne io=0x300 irq=3 in it and then re-run update-modules. That should fix it. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
