On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:14:50PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Cornelius Weiss wrote: > > i managed to install a debian-base-system from the net-install image on > > a digital alpha-station255. > > After the reboot of DI the installation couldn't be finished, as the > > network isn't working. > > On colsole it alwas says: "Wanrning: No link beat Found" > > Is sombody aware of a solution for this problem? > Many of the Alphas with builtin old/slow TULIPs give problems with > the current default driver ("de2104x"). I think it's NOT the driver's > fault, but some kinda quirky implementation on the mobos. Regardless, > it doesn't work successfully (and won't, until the quirkiness is > understood). > If the other TULIP driver "de4x5" is built for your kernel, try that. > By old/slow TULIPs, I mean 21040 and 21041 chipsets. Are there any changes that should be made to the kernel's modules.pcimap for this? > And the Alphas with those builtin are: > AS200/AS250/AS255/AS300/AS500 > Those same old/slow TULIP chipsets, when on a PCI card (like the DE434 > and DE435), do seem to work OK with the "de2104x" driver, IIRC. Hrm. Does that mean the PCI IDs match between the working and non-working cases? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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