AHA2842 and Debian 2.0 kernal problems

[Andy Kennedy]

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:

> I'm having no luck at all installing the Debian 2.0 Linux distribution
> on my 486 PC.  The system is 100% SCSI.  I've removed all extra cards
> except for the serial/floppy controller and the video card so I don't
> believe there are any conflicts.  I've also disconnected all SCSI
> devices except the boot drive.

I had a similar problem once before.  I had serious confilcts with CUA0
and CUA1.  Because of the CRAPPY Award BIOS that I was using, I was unable
to run the 2940UW on that board without doing some real major overhauling
(rebuilt the flash BIOS).  

Is the 2842 a PNP card?  If it is, you might want to try to disable all
the ports on your board and make sure that your floppy is _NOT_ in
conflict with whatever the PNP on your board is trying to setup your
card as.


wuff,
andy



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