On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Guy Santiglia wrote:

> I'm trying to install 1.4.1. I have an old compaq with an ne2000 network
> card. I made the two boot floppies with rawrite and went through
> sysinst up to the point where I choose the installation method.
> I chose ftp and then it asks for network parameters.
> sysinst said it found [ne1] so I chose that.
> I left hostname and domain name blank and then entered in :
> 
> 
> 
> IP address:  192.168.0.4
> Gateway:     192.168.0.1
> 
> blah blah blah, anyway when it gets to the part where it tries to 
> ping my dns server, I get the "ne1: device time out" message.

It card must be set to one of the following irq/port combinations to
work with the default INSTALL and GENERIC kernels. (These lines from
GENERIC.) The ne driver can't autodetect the irq, so at boot time, it
will simply print whatever was configured into the kernel.

ne0     at isa? port 0x280 irq 9
ne1     at isa? port 0x300 irq 10


You can probably find a utility on compaq's web site to change the
settings on the card. If not there, try running a search on the part
number silk-screened on the card.

 
> It is connected to a home network that is working properly.
> What could be the problem? Any ideas what I can do?