[H-GEN] Pentium II, Linux, Accton Cheetah Ethernet ...

[Tim Purcell]

> Robert Kearey wrote:
> 
> > I gotta new toy - A 233 MHz PII. Unfortunately, Linux refuses to
> > recognise the IDE CDROM, and more worryingly, teh eepo100 driver for the
> > ethernet card complains about a crappy checksum and a non bus mastering
> > PCI slot (it aint so).
> 
> I'm an idiot. This is a FAQ - one just turns off the PnP support in the
> BIOS.
> 
> I think the CDROM is on the secondary slave or something equally odd.
> 

Yeh, this is the same problem I had with my box (P166) last week at the
meeting. My CDROM is also on the secondary slave (I just can't seem to
bring myself to get rid of old HDD's). Installing RH5 with 2.0.32 didn't
recognize the ide CDROM but upgrading to 2.0.33 everything seemed to work
fine.

Tim Purcell
Economics


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