Re: More fa311 probing

["Jeff Mayrand" <mayrandj@xxxxxxxx>]

ummm got it working....somewhat, here was the scoop, I had left the symbios
setting turned on even though I have no scsi on the system, reset the irq on
the two pci devices I have,  still have a irq contention problem with the
promise controller wanting to use irq 5 along with my sblive (go figure on
this one) and my usb is broke but I do have networking up and functioning
now!  I think I may start looking for a new mboard mfg.  I usually always
buy Asus products as I have 5 of there mainboards here right now but this is
absurd.  Is there a linux hardware review site out there?  What do the
developers of the kernel use?

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 1:42 AM
Subject: Re: More fa311 probing


> Jeff Mayrand wrote:
> > Been trying to set it there...
>
> Really?  I've had the same situation with Windows 9x, but never
> Linux.  I've had PCI 2.0 boards not work in some slots, or even
> newer PCI 2.1/2.2 boards conflicting, but never outside of Windows
> 9x.  It always seems to work fine in Linux, even with all 6 PCI
> slots filled in my Abit KT7.
>
> > Its an A7V mainboard and the ATA100 controller keeps
> > trying to grab IRQ's.
>
> IMHO, Promise chips/products are the biggest pieces of crap on the
> planet.  But that's my opinion (and why I stick with Abit products
> over Asus because the former uses High Point).
>
> I also have a NetGear FA310TX Rev. D1 that sits in a pile.  It never
> worked right and would cause my whole PCI bus to go down (as well as
> get hot as shit).  As such, I no longer buy NetGear Fast Ethernet
> products (although their GA620 Gigabit card is a reference AceNIC
> that works great).
>
> > After forcing a specific IRQ for each pci slot I cannot
> > boot now...
>
> I'm assuming your boot drive is on the off-chipset IDE controller?
> Are you telling it your boot device is /dev/hde and BIOS disk 80h in
> LILO? **  Or did you re-compile your kernel to assign off-chipset
> IDE controllers first (so it is /dev/hda)?
>
> ** NOTE:  Here's an example /etc/lilo.conf:
>
>    # /etc/lilo.conf
>    disk = /dev/hde
> bios = 80
>    boot = /dev/hde
>       ....
>
> > Also found a bios update from asus but the files dont
> > exist on there ftp site!!  Any other ideas?
>
> The FTP site, was it US or Taiwanese?  If it was the former, try the
> latter's ftp site (asus.com.tw).
>

Ahhh good point there I forgot they have two sites one in Taiwan and one in
the us...  Ill try it now...


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