Mandrake 9.2 install H/W problem

[Keith Antoine]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:21 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

First up you will have seen my previous mail. There was a dos disk included to 
add Silicone Image sata drivers which MUST be only for windows: Guessing!
So the question begs, where do the drivers for linux, which work well, come 
from in Mandrake, if it is mandrakes'. They do work very well and stable.

> > 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?

Yes the same as my cable connection, so it works no differently ? BTW
I use mine with cat5 into network card, cable came with modem; it has usb but 
it does not seem to work in linux; only in nic. Also with my Optusnet cable 
modem I do nothing other than connect it to the in-built nic connection 
(3com), no software etc it just connects. I just questioned him and the cable 
came with the modem and connects like mine into in-built nic on the Gigabyte 
mb. Whereas I know my in-built is #Com he does not know.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161
Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage