RE: BIOS32 entry (0xc00fa000) in high memory, cannot use
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LTG [mailto:ltg@nyc.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:35 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590
>
>
> I have been trying to install the latest GNU/Debian
> release (Linux version 2.2.17 (herbert@arnor) (gcc
> version 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Sun Jun
> 25 09:24:41 EST 2000) flavor 'vanilla' on a Compaq
> Prolinea 590. This machine has 98MB of RAM, a 6Gig HD
> and a 3.5 inch floppy drive. I upgraded the BIOS with
> the latest Compaq ROMpaq: (version 98.05.20). I have
> been able to sucessfully install the base system.
>
> Since I do not have a CDROM drive, my plan was to
> configure my PCI Ethernet card, a Linksys 10/100 LAN
> Card, Model LNE100TX - which uses the tulip driver, so
> that I could access Debian's packages at
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/. Unfortunately, I am
> unable to get my card to work.
>
> I orginally tried (during my initial install of LINUX)
> to install the tulip driver that came with this Debian
> release, but an error message resulted saying that the
> resource was busy. Incidentally, I also tried to
> install the lp driver for parallel printer support,
> and I got the same error message. Anyway, I yanked
> out the card and moved it to the other PCI slot. I
> tried a full install of linux again, but was greeted
> with the same error message while trying to install
> tulip: resource busy...most commonly IO or IRQ
> conflict...etc.
>
> I subsequently hit the HOWTO's on www.linuxdoc.org,
> where I read through the Ethernet HOWTO. I learned
> that I should test to see if my card was even being
> found. I ran dmesg | more and discovered that no
> eth0 existed. Here is thye full output of dmesg :
>
> ---START DMESG---
>
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> ---END DMESG---
>
> Notice the messages that read (maybe they have
> something to do with it):
>
> PCI: BIOS32 entry (0xc00fa000) in high memory, cannot
> use.
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>
> I tried to use Compaq's F10 Setup software for the
> computer to configure the card properly, but to I
> haven't a clue what I am doing with memory ranges and
> I/O ranges: The software won't let me choose an I/O
> range less than 1000 - 10FF. It also won't let me
> chose a memory range less than 41000000 - 410003FF.
>
> DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CLUES??? MAYBE A BAZOOKA?
>
I had a similar problem with a compaq 486 prolinea. The problem
is that the pci bios is located at a strange place. There is a
utility that can relocate the pci bios code down to a place where
linux can find it. I can't remember now what it's called but
it should be on the compaq web site. I never got mine to work
but you might have more luck. The 486 I was using had built in
scsi and I couldn't even install the base system (could not find
the hard disk). I assume you have to boot to dos, run this utility
and then use the dos linux loader to boot into linux.
hth
jim
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim
>
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