[Sussex] Whoohoo, Compaq laptop on the mend

Dominic dominic.clay at btinternet.com
Fri Aug 1 17:32:01 UTC 2003


Ahh ha, ... if I use the acpi option, I dont need to specify pci=off   (the
problem was CDROM wouldn't respond without pci=off, but if I specify
acpi... )

looks like eth0 is go! :)

Dominic

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From: "Jon Fautley" <jon at 3ait.co.uk>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Whoohoo, Compaq laptop on the mend


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On Friday 01 Aug 2003 3:55 pm, Dominic wrote:
> ... trouble is when I use this to boot to a build CD there is _no_ network
> support (No PCI?).  soooo, how am I going to do network update to my build
> without a network  :/

PLIP is your friend :)

(Parallell Line IP - There's a HOWTO on it somewhere :))

Jon
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