Mandrake 9.2 install H/W problem

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Keith Antoine wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 04:40 am, Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > > AFAIK, sata is not fully supported in the 2.4.x kernels.  I don't know
> > > about the 2.6 kernels.
> >
> > That is correct.  In fact, AFAIK, SATA isn't supported at all in 2.4.x
> > kernels.  It is supposed to have decent support in 2.6.0.  If someone
> > wanted to donate SATA hardware to me, i could verify that  :)
>
> If this were so then how come that I can boot up with 9.1 and have linux see
> my sata drive ?

I wouldn't know.  Maybe mandrake back-ported some SATA support into their
kernel?  Even so, real SATA support is in 2.6.0, and you're walking a very
thin line depending on a vendor kernel for hardware support that isn't in
the mainline.

> There was something else with my sons booting with 9.1 also. Now as you are
> aware this is secondhand, however. On boot he has to switch on his adsl modem
> at the point in time when its indicating that its accessing that piece
> otherwise it does not recognise the item. If switched on before it does not
> work.
>
> I am aware that the information is sparse, but I am relied upon to get things
> going. I am totally ignorant of adsl and its foibles. I will ask for him to
> do a dmesg and send that to me. In the meantime any thoughts ?

Not really.  Normally DSL modems don't even plug directly into the
computer, as they're an external device.  The only connection between the
computer & modem is cat5.  Now perhaps this is a networking configuration
issue?

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