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I added two NIC's to a working Mdk8.2 box (the headless box that I brought to the Plymouth meeting). It's an old Pentium1 and doesn't get on well with PCI/USB. So, the cards wouldn't work. I tried ifconfig and netconf to no avail. I thought about using Knoppix to simulate installing a new distro - in the hope that it would detect the cards and illuminate my problem. BIOS offers boot from CDROM but it refused - motherboard obviously ignores BIOS settings on this one because the drive itself is not a problem. OK, mount the CD anyway and read the README for info on boot floppies. Problem: dd if=./boot-en.img of=/dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 does not exist Guh? So now I had no Knoppix, no NIC's and no floppy. I figured out that the problem with /dev/fd0 is that the I/O address appears to be in use. $ dmesg | grep floppy Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f7 in use ide-floppy driver 0.97 How do I fix that?? $ mount /mnt/floppy mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device And yes, there is a floppy in the drive - it's the Knoppix boot floppy that it booted from about 10minutes ago. I had to get the one ISA NIC working, ftp the boot image to another machine and create the boot floppy from there. The first floppy failed to boot with more I/O errors but I eventually got it working with a second. It all boiled down to an Advanced setting in the BIOS that was assigning IRQ's ONLY to ISA cards. (Which is why I've had problems with PCI in the past, Duh!) (Why 3 NIC's? One for a fixed IP for home LAN use, one for DHCP to use if I need to connect to a different network and have an IP,route etc assigned and one because I had a card spare.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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