Re: making my own netinstall CD

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

Moin Markus!
Markus Schabel schrieb am Wednesday, den 05. February 2003:

> Eduard Bloch wrote:
> <snip/>
> >Use floppies and read in the manuall about kernel replacement. However,
> >the old driver CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD680 is enabled in the new kernel of
> >next (testing) release of boot-floppies. Please look at
> >http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ and report the results.
> 
> The module 3c59x seems to be broken in your bf's. Loads without
> problems, I'm able to configure the interface manually, but I'm not
> able to use the interface. ping get's no responses. Tried the same
> with the official 2.4.18-bf24 bootfloppies, works fine...
> 
> Any ideas what's wrong?

Not really. I have a 3c59x, and it works fine for me. You could play
with different module options:

filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.21-pre4/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o
description: "3Com 3c59x/3c9xx ethernet driver LK1.1.16 19 July 2001"
author:      "Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>"
license:     "GPL"
parm:        debug int, description "3c59x debug level (0-6)"
parm:        options int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "3c59x: Bits 0-3: media type, bit 4: bus mastering, bit 9: full duplex"
parm:        full_duplex int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "3c59x full duplex setting(s) (1)"
parm:        hw_checksums int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "3c59x Hardware checksum checking by adapter(s) (0-1)"
parm:        flow_ctrl int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "3c59x 802.3x flow control usage (PAUSE only) (0-1)"
parm:        enable_wol int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "3c59x: Turn on Wake-on-LAN for adapter(s) (0-1)"
parm:        rx_copybreak int, description "3c59x copy breakpoint for copy-only-tiny-frames"
parm:        max_interrupt_work int, description "3c59x maximum events handled per interrupt"
parm:        compaq_ioaddr int, description "3c59x PCI I/O base address (Compaq BIOS problem workaround)"
parm:        compaq_irq int, description "3c59x PCI IRQ number (Compaq BIOS problem workaround)"
parm:        compaq_device_id int, description "3c59x PCI device ID (Compaq BIOS problem workaround)"
parm:        watchdog int, description "3c59x transmit timeout in milliseconds"

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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