[24770] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.20: athena linux installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Foley)
Wed Oct 15 11:07:14 2003
From: Joe Foley <foley@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:01:36 -0400
I think I discovered the problem. The PCMCIA controller appears
to have suddenly died. *sigh*
Joe
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 05:43, andrew m. boardman wrote:
> >[...]
> >What were you trying to do?
> > Reinstall rhlinux on my sony pcg-F390 laptop.
> > (I've done this before a while ago, and didn't have issues)
> > Now when I try to install, it goes tot he driver phase and fails
> > to recognize any of my network cards. (linksys PCMPC200, Orinoco Gold,
> > 3Com 3c589cs)
>
> Do you know what version of the installer you were using, then and now,
> and which network device you originally used? The current install CD has
> both the 3c589_cs and sis900 drivers, and should in theory work with
> either. (It should also have the orinoco drivers, but due to a rather
> stupid bug I've just found, it doesn't.)
>
> Various useful logging happens via the #3 and #4 virtual terminals during
> the install; it might also be helpful to look at this output (hit Alt-F3
> or Alt-F4 once the fancy coloured screens come up) to see if there are
> any obvious errors being reported, and to see what modules were tried.
>
> If the above doesn't shed any light on it, could I get access to the
> machine at some point?
>
> Finally, as a practical matter, if your hardware worked with an older
> version of the install media, you can still use that to reinstall,
> although I'd still like to find the root of the problem. (Also note that
> backwards compatability with older media is *not* to be relied on, though
> we do try.)
