[RULE] How do I get the kernel installed???

[C David Rigby]

Oops!  You figured this out on your own, but I didn't notice that before
I posted my response.  Sorry for the wasted bandwidth.  Note to self:
Coffee first, then newsgroups!  {8->

CDR

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:58, King_Henree at yahoo.com wrote:
> I finally got my 3Com 3c509b and 3c509tp cards
> working.  It turns out they were both set to use the
> same io address.  I had to use an old DOS utility--
> 3Com EtherDisk v. 2.0-- that I miraculously found
> while I was looking for some other stuff.  I
> understand there are also newer EtherDisk tools
> (http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result.jsp?selected=5&sku=3C509B-TPC&sort=effdt&order=desc
> or for linux @ http://sycld.com) that will do the same
> thing.  With that utility I simply booted into DOS and
> ran the program which enabled me to autoconfigure the
> io address in use and make sure pnp was disabled.
> 
> Now everything works properly with the 3c509.o driver
> under RedHat 9.  Well, since I have 2 NIC cards I had
> to set aliases in /etc/modules.conf
> 
> # /etc/modules.conf
> alias eth0 3c509
> alias eth1 3c509
> 
> Hope this helps anyone else searching through the
> archives who may ever have this problem.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --- Michael Fratoni <mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net>
> wrote:
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> > On Thursday 14 August 2003 02:19 am,
> > king_henree at yahoo.com wrote:
> > > This system is an Intel 486.  The FTP seems to be
> > > working, but now I have run into another problem. 
> > I
> > > keep getting the following error:
> > >
> > > eth0: infinite loop in interrupt, status 2001
> > >
> > > I have a 3Com 3c509tp card using EISA that uses
> > the
> > > 3c509.o module.  I have searched to see if anyone
> > else
> > > has experienced this problem and the only thing
> > that
> > > may be relevant is that isapnp support is enabled
> > in
> > > the kernel which may cause an error like this. 
> > How is
> > > the kernel for installation configured?  The
> > following
> > > link suggests it should be set like:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2001/Feb/4305.html
> > >
> > > #
> > > # Plug and Play configuration
> > > #
> > > CONFIG_PNP=y
> > > # CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set
> > >
> > > Although, when that link was written kernel 2.4.1
> > was
> > > the kernel with the problem, it still may be
> > relevant.
> > >  Are there any suggestions as to how to fix this?
> > 
> > I've no idea what is causing the error above. If you
> > have another network 
> > card available, can you try switching it out? The
> > installer kernel is 
> > configured as above:
> > 
> > [mfratoni at paradox slinky]$ grep -i isapnp
> > kernel.config
> > # CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set
> > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ISAPNP is not set
> > 
> > - -- 
> > - -Michael
> > 
> > pgp key: 
> > http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
> > Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM:
> > http://www.rule-project.org/en/
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