[Gllug] Evil Compaq EPK500 and Debian Potato

[Postill, Robert]

Thanks guys, 
I've got the mouse working (a link did the trick as suggested but I thought
the Debian install would have created one anyhow, never mind).  However the
eepro100 driver still hates the card (I am beginning to see its point).  I
pulled the following from /var/messages:
The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device!  Updating PCI command 0003 -> 0007
eth0: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0xff00, check settings before activating this
device.

I checked the files and there are no conflicts.  Also as a PCI card I
thought I wouldn't have to specify the address am I wrong?  I set no
initialisation parameters in the install so I'm wondering whether I should
have set something for this card.  Intel's site wasn't too forthcoming, a
list of parameters but nothing to get you started.

Robert.

-----Original Message-----
From: brichardson at lineone.net [mailto:brichardson at lineone.net]
Sent: 02 August 2001 22:15
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Evil Compaq EPK500 and Debian Potato


On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:17:30PM +0100, Postill, Robert wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone had any bother with installing Debian 2.2r3 on a Compaq EPK500?
I
> have tried to install it no less than a dozen times and have had no joy.
> More annoyingly Mandrake 8 goes on without a whisper.  Specifically
> /dev/mouse isn't created and the LAN card (an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100
> with management) picks up it's DHCP setting no problem but then promptly
> won't talk to any other machine on the LAN.

Those aren't Compaq-specific problems, they are config problems.

/dev/mouse - isn't normally a device but a symlink to whichever device
is actually your mouse.  I don't think debian has ever actually created
it IME.  You can create it yourself if you want but I just use the
actual device - it's not something that changes often - you may change
the physical device but you usually use the same port.

As for the network problem, there may be a conflict between different
config files.  Did you set a static address at any point?  Might there
be a fixed ip address for your machine in /etc/hosts or
/etc/network/interfaces?  If so, this would cause such a problem.

Or you may have a hostname which duplicates one in the domain DNS.

-- 
Bruce

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