Re: Install troubles - Tyan K8WE

["Gary Hodges" <Gary.Hodges@noaa.gov>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:33:36PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote:
>  
>
> > I got the listing with Knoppix v3.8 installed.  I see v4.0 is out now.  
> > I don't see any network controllers with lspci.  Networking does work 
> > with Knoppix.
> >
> > 0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0053 (rev a2)
> > 0000:00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0054 (rev a3)
> > 0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0055 (rev a3)
> > 0000:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005c (rev a2)
> > 0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0057 (rev a3)
> > 0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
> > 0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> > 0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> > 0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> > 0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> > 0000:00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> > 0000:00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> > 0000:00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> > 0000:00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> > 0000:01:04.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge 
> > (non-transparent
> > mode) (rev 15)
> > 0000:08:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X 
> > Bridge (rev
> > 12)
> > 0000:80:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0057 (rev a3)
> > 0000:80:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
> >    
>
> That is an awfully large number of bridges.  Are there any PCIexpress in
> the system?  I have read stuff about PCI to PCIexpress bridges not being
> configured correctly on the linux kernel mailing list in the last few
> days.  I wonder if the ethernet is hiding behind one such bridge.
>  

There are two slots labeled PCI Express x16, and three labeled PCI-X 
(two 100 MHz and one 133MHz).

> > Yes, it is SCSI.  It sounds like from another person responding to my 
> > post that I need at least 2.6.10 installed.  I really want to run sarge 
> > on this machine as that is what I'm running on all our other Linux 
> > installs.  It seems like I'm going to have to install a few crutches 
> > (older cards) to get the basic installation done and then go from there.
> >    
>
> Well there are people with 2.6.11 install cds from february that have
> posted the url for those on the amd64 debian list so you could go grab
> one of those and try if that works, and manually load the forcedeth
> driver from console 2 during the install and see if that all works out.
> You can then grab 2.6.11 from testing or unstable after installing.

Thanks for the tip(s).  I'll dig up the 2.6.11 install CDs later this 
week.  Will report back on what happens.

Cheers,
Gary