"Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > Greetings, > I tried to do a fresh install of Potato from a CD I burned from > ftp://ftp.kando.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/ which is "a test > version of the Potato i386 Net-Install CDROM, which features just enough to > get you on the 'net, from which you can download the rest (automatically). > This is a bootable CD with kernel, drivers and the base system." > I booted from the CD-ROM just fine, and installation was going great > until > loading device modules. I have a DLink DE-220P that I am using in NON-PnP > mode with io=0x240 and irq=10. These setting work fine for the Dual boot of > Win95. On my slink installs I have used the NE2000 driver (which it what > their website suggests) with no problems. When adding the ne driver for the > potato install, it would fail installation. I tried resetting the NIC to > other settings and restarting the process, but it never worked. > HELP, HELP, HELP! What do I do? > > Thanks, > > Brooks
Is your DLink NIC an ISA NIC, not a PCI NIC? If so, you may need to use isapnptools. See http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ . The NIC needs to be configured before the driver module loads, or else Linux will hang as modprobe tries to probe the NIC and fails. If you look at the boot scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ you'll see that isapnp gets called right before modutils. I just went through this with a couple of Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 ISA NICs. They are PnP NICs, but not really. The older ISA PnP NICs apparently don't Do the Right Thing for reasons I don't understand. That's where isapnp comes in. The link above explains it all. Good luck! HTH. Stan
