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Re: AHA2940AU Support?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Weible)
Mon Nov 18 17:58:40 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:43:13 -0700 (MST)
From: Todd Weible <toddw@cyberhighway.net>
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Bob Burton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Yes, I bought a 2940AU adapter. No, RH4.0 won't recognize it. Evidently it's
> because the adapter uses a different chip set based on the 7861 which came
> after the latest aic7xxx driver. I verified this by downloading and booting
> from a _slackware_ image built with a pci.h which had code which would
> recognize this card. It was the only one I could find after many hours of
> searching. The date this image was created was the 27th of September.
>
> Needless to say, I'm really bummed about this. I expected RH would have had
> this latest code in this distribution.
>
> So, my question is, how does one install 4.0 on a machine that can't use it's
> hard drives? I suspect one solution is to make a new boot floppy with a
> working kernel. However, I'm interested to find out if others had this same
> problem (misery likes company) and what was done to fix it.
>
Yep, many had the problem. you can get new boot disks, there are two to
choose from, from the redhat site. check errata, www.redhat.com/errata
Todd
toddw@cyberhighway.net
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