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Re: RH4.0 network installation with 3c509

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jason philbrook)
Fri Nov 1 12:28:06 1996

From: jason philbrook <jp@c6h22o11.midcoast.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 12:20:59 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199611011709.RAA29070@corp.netcom.net.uk> from "James Fidell" at Nov 1, 96 05:09:39 pm
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Mine has the error message and works just fine. Did you turn off the PnP 
with the dos 3c5x9cfg program?

> 
> Can anyone help me with this ?  I want to install from an NFS mounted
> partition, but the standard boot disks don't appear to properly support
> the 3c509 card (the kernel gives an error message saying that loadable
> module support for the 3c509 is only likely to work with an EISA bus,
> and I'm using a PCI machine).  My machine just hangs when the install
> process tries to mount the NFS filesystem.
> 
> I guess what I need is a boot disk with a statically linked 3c509
> driver or some clues on how to get the existing boot image to work.
> I've tried building a new kernel and boot image, but I can't get that
> to work :-(
> 
> James.
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