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I don't know if there's anything I can do about this, but I'd at least
like to know why.  If anyone would be kind enough to explain this to me,
I would certainly appreciate the advice.  Or, if there is a web site or
other source that would help me out, please recommend one.

thank you!
eric "by god i'm going to figure this thing out eventually" brown

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Quote:> Here's another for ya... I'm installing RH5.0 on a 4 gig
> Pentium 166 w/ 32 MB ram.   I'm not too sure about how fips
> decides how much to partition.  I have 2 gig of free space
> available, and would have liked to partition off 1 gig of
> this for Linux use.  But when I run fips, the most it will
> allow me to allocate is like 350 MB on the "new drive."

So that means that one (or more) of the DOS/Win files couldn't
be moved.  Probably because has its' read only attribute set.
It will take some detective work to find out which file this
is.  Maybe Norton Utilities can help.

It could be the Win swapfile is located there.  If you can set
up a temporary swapfile and boot "DOS" to run fips, the Win
swapfile will go away.  This may (or may not) help.  This is
probably a long shot.  You best bet is to get a program that
can tell you what each file on a drive each sector belongs to.

Quote:> thank you!
> eric "by god i'm going to figure this thing out eventually" brown

Perry Grieb

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ifconfig eth0 172. etc.
SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device

Since I thought the default kernel might not have networking, I recompiled the
kernel.
Still the same. Since the NIC card is plug & pray, is there a way under Linux
to
see the io addresses & IRQs? Even Windows has this.

Help!
Thanks in advance,
Bob Sparks
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I have tried all the things mentioned in this and other threads about the
3c509b.
I tried the isapnptools.

I added: options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=12    to /etc/conf.modules.
I rebooted under DOS, used the 3com disk for the card. I disabled PnP.
    Things started to happen when I changed the "optimize driver" to server!
I can now do ifconfig eth0 up, and not get the error messages.
ifconfig finally shows lo and eth0, with eth0 receiving many packets.
cat /proc/ioports finally shows:    0300-030f  : 3c509

However, when I ping homeless, the name of my intranet server, I get:
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable.

Oh, yea.   Restart the network. Ping works!
smbclient returns a valid result!

Thanks for all the help.
I hope these additional details can help someone else.

Bob Sparks
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Linux Enthusiast, Linux Rules!