Re: [TCLUG:9684] New kernel

[Ben Beuchler <insyte@emt-p.org>]

Thanks.  I'll try that.

My ne2000 card has PnP disabled.  It worked fine as a module...

Ben

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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Ben Kochie wrote:

> glibc2.1 and later use "devpts" support instead of /dev/ttyp? for virtual
> TTY's  you forgot to load that support.. it consisits of 2 options
> devpts filesystem support, and devpts character device.
> 
> normaly, a standard ISA NE2000 card is automatically detected, with no
> ether= statement necessary.. what you may have is a PNP card, that is
> supported by the ISAPNP system, and since ISAPNP is a userspace utility,
> you may not be able to inline compile your NT2000 card :( 
> 
> check your bios.. many have an option called "support for PNP OS"  if it
> is set to Yes, switch to No, and don't append an ether= statment, and see
> what happens
> 
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
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> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> 
> > I just built myself a svelte new kernel.  I'm now having two problems:
> > 
> > 1) I decided to compile support for my ne2000 compat directly in, instead
> > of using it as a module.  Now it can't seem to find it.  I am using
> > "ether=9,0x2a0" at the boot prompt.  Those are the exact same IRQ/IO
> > settings I was using when it was a module.
> > 
> > 2) I get an error during the portion of the boot process where it mounts
> > local filesystems stating that it can't find the 'devpts' module or the
> > 'nls_iso8859-1' module.  I can't seem to find reference to either one in
> > the 'make xconfig' menu.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > Ben
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