3COM ethernet card and NE2000 ethernet card

3COM ethernet card and NE2000 ethernet card

Post by Ben Rusieck » Fri, 05 Jun 1998 04:00:00



I've been trying to set up my system with a 3COM 3C905 PCI network card and
an NE2000 network card.  I do a "make xconfig", I change the 3COM setting
for the 3COM card to yes and I change the NE2000 compatible card to yes.
Then I recompile the kernel as normal:  make dep  make clean  make boot
make modules  make modules_install.  Then I copy the kernel over to the
/boot and edit lilo.conf and then I run /sbin/lilo.  

When I reboot, the kernel doesn't finish loading and gives me a message
saying something like, "Kernel panic:VFS".  What am I doing wrong?  I'm
also using kernel version 2.0.32.

Thanks,

Ben

 
 
 

3COM ethernet card and NE2000 ethernet card

Post by Support Dep » Sat, 06 Jun 1998 04:00:00



Quote:>I've been trying to set up my system with a 3COM 3C905 PCI network card and
>an NE2000 network card.  I do a "make xconfig", I change the 3COM setting
>for the 3COM card to yes and I change the NE2000 compatible card to yes.
>Then I recompile the kernel as normal:  make dep  make clean  make boot
>make modules  make modules_install.  Then I copy the kernel over to the
>/boot and edit lilo.conf and then I run /sbin/lilo.  

You should be able to run the ne2000 without a recompile and if you have the
3c905b it is not supported.  Check http://www.redhat.com

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3COM ethernet card and NE2000 ethernet card

Post by Dave Brou » Sat, 06 Jun 1998 04:00:00




Quote:> When I reboot, the kernel doesn't finish loading and gives me a message
> saying something like, "Kernel panic:VFS".  What am I doing wrong?  I'm
> also using kernel version 2.0.32.

It sounds like the kernel doesn't know where to mount the root (/)
filesystem.  Make sure that the type of filesystem is compiled into the
kernel, not as a module.  The type is probably ext2.  Also, check in
/etc/lilo.conf for 'root=/dev/...' lines under the section that you're
trying to boot.  This should be the root file system.  If you don't know
what this is, type 'mount' and look for the '/' entry.

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