On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:48 am, ben wrote: > On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:27 am, Ina & Frank wrote: > > Dear reader. > > > > Sorry I forgot the subject at first. > > > > I have several IBM PC's: MCA based OR PCI based PC's, working fine with > > debian 2.2r2. A new one gave me this problem. > > > > The PC is a IBM 520 8641MDG. (Pentium 133MHz). The motherboard has 8 MCA > > slots AND 2 PCI slots. The PC is working fine with DOS and Windows NT > > (sorry I said that). > > > > I tried to install Debian 2.2r2 and 2.2r6 but the install fails on one > > point. dmesg keeps reporting that it failed to probe the PCI-bus. > > > > this is a part of the log: > > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX > > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd82c > > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > > PCI: Unable to handle I/O allocation for 00:40 (0200), tell <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> > > Micro Channel bus detected. > > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 > > > > I told [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no reply yet. > > > > MCA slots (and adapters) are working fine. > > But since the RAID-controller and the ethetnetcard use these two PCI > > slots..... > > > > It doesn't matter if use MCA slots or not. > > > > Anybody who has a clue to address these PCI-slots/bus. > > > > Thanx in advance. > > > > Frank > > > > BTW. Does anyone know where to get enthernet MCA-cards? > > it kinda sounds like the card in some particular mca slot isn't doing what > it should--in terms of: one of the mca cards totally hogs the slot but some > part of the card circuitry is shot; and because it's not returning the > information it alleges to provide, its irq is left open but inaccessible. > since pci cards are intended to switch and share irq's, pull all the mca > cards and reinsert them selectively in order to determine which > one--whether card or slot--is preventing your pci cards from doing their > job. >
i just re-read your post and i wonder how fine the box works under the win products. it's really not vanilla when m$ (or sado-masochism, if you will) is involved. is this a dual/multi-boot setup or are you getting to linux through one or the other of the beast installations? and when you say "a new one," what does this mean? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
