Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

[Brian Durant <durant@cbn.net.id>]

Yes, it worked with Win 98 SE, until I erased the hard disk. I erased 
the hard disk because too many bad, local techs had been mucking around 
in it. The computer simply needed a clean install. I thought I would try 
something different like Linux. I have tried Mandrake 9, Xandros 1, SuSE 
7.3 and now Debian 3 rev. 1. While it would in principle be a relatively 
simple matter to re-install Win 98 SE and get the system working, there 
is the problem that the Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin is an EasyPC, with not 
legacy ports. The floppy is a third party USB floppy drive and can not 
be used to boot from and for some reason it won't boot from an original 
Win 98 SE CD that is not a special Fujitsu-Siemens system CD. The 
computer was purchased in Finland and a Finnish system is of no use to 
us. The only way to re-install Win 98 SE is to do a network install, 
which I don't know how to initiate and complete and I can't get Linux to 
work at this point either, so my daughter is not very happy about me 
having erased her system, even though it didn't work well.

I don't believe the problem is the cable itself, though I haven't tried 
to run a 25 meter cable through the house, as I had the same problem a 
year ago, when I partitioned the computer into a dual boot Mandrake 8.1 
and Win 98 SE system. Win 98 SE could get an IP address with dhcp 
without a hitch, but I was never successful with getting the ethernet 
card to work with Mandrake. I assume the problem must be with the SiS 
900 driver, but have never been able to pin anything down.

Cheers,

Brian

Shri Shrikumar wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 11:43, Brian Durant wrote:
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> > The only thing interesting that I found, was with the "dmesg" command. 
> > The response was "eth0: Media Link Off". I have run into this response 
> > with Deb 3 rev. 1 as well. Don't know what it means one of the replies 
> > from the thread stated that it wasn't even in the source code!
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> Does it work for another OS ? I think that Media Link Off means that the
> cable is physically not attached to the card.
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> HTH,
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> Shri
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