Re: Pentium Freezes (Potato)
On Sunday 13 January 2002 10:59 pm, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> crispin@iinet.net.au writes:
> > I had heaps of problems installing Debian (or any linux) on my HP
> > Vectra VL. I bought it second hand and it had been set up with
> > windows on it. My problems were solved by...
> >
> > 1) Changing the BIOS setup. PNP - no. Standard app - Yes. Some
> > others I think
> >
> > 2) Using the 3c59x driver for the ethernet device.
> >
> > Then everything works fine. If this is hows its set and your still
> > having probs, then it could be hardware.
>
> Unfortunatly there is no PNP option in my Vectra BIOS. However, I did
> flash the BIOS with an update from HP/Phoenix but still the problem
> persists. I'm also not running SCSI on it. The only card I have in it
> is the NIC - an older Netgear NE2000 clone I bought at Frey's for $5.
>
> What's funny is that the system is freezing somewhat sporatically in
> that it sometimes froze while compiling utils-linux but later threw an
> oops with SIG 11 (are we still supposed to send these to Linus?) and
> later ld just plain seg faulted (ld caused the oops with sig 11).
>
> My next venture is to download HP's troubleshooting disk and see
> if that helps any. Thank you for all your help.
>
there's a bug in the vectra series that goes way way back that prevents
ne2000's, whether clones or otherwise, from even being recognized on the
board. i can't remember the details but it do remember coming across it when
trying to hook a 486 vectra to a client's newer machine. it just wouldn't
fly. i believe that we solved the problem by plip linking the two machines.
in any case, i distinctly remember that the vectra wouldn't even boot with
the ne2000. the hp site has info about it at
http://www.support.vectra.hp.com/vectrasupport/level4/4bpv02088/4bpv02088.html
the problem on the vectra is that the card needs to be configurable to suit
the vectra's quirks.
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