Potato on a Zenith Z-Note 433 Lpn+
Specs:
Machine: Zenith Z-Note 433 Lpn+
Memory: 8 Meg
Disk: 200 Meg
Processor: 386 SX 25
Network: AUI Port
Display: Color
Problem:
I have an old (and old is an understatement) laptop
that I have been trying to get some flavor of linux
loaded and using the AUI port. I started off with
Slackware 4.0 and I rebuilt the kernel to include the
znet driver. When I went to access the AUI port the
kernel would "Oops" and panic. So I chatted with some
nice folks on #linuxbeginner and they suggested that I
try potato or woody. Well woody requires 12 Meg of
memory (which I did not have), so I loaded potato.
Now when the base install boots it load the 3c59x
built in driver and I see the AUI/10BaseT converter
light up and my router lights up, but when I do an
ifconfig -a all I see is the loopback.
So do I need to rebuild the kernel to get it to load
the znet.c driver? Is there another driver that is
available (as a module) in potato that I could use?
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your time.
Heath C Bair
(MrCandybar)
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