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Luke Burton wrote:
> 
> Hi there ...
> 
> Redhat looks like such a cool thing, but I just can't get it to work
> properly!
> 
> I originally had Slackware installed, this was wiped in favour of a
> 'Caldera' distribution that was version 1.0 I think. Anyway, it was based
> on Redhat. So when I came to download redhat I got all the pertinant files,
> installed it, but struck the following problems.
> 
> During the install, it asked me about network cards. Now I have a clone
> NE2000 connected to a TCP/IP network that works PERFECTLY in windows95, and
> FLAWLESSLY in Caldera 1.0. But Redhat-4.0 just doesn't see the card. During
> the install I entered in the type of card and manually the irqs etc and it
> said 'Cannot find that device on this system!' or some such rubbish. I was
> of course selecting 'NE2000'
> 
> So, someone advised me to rebuild the kernel making sure it had ne2000
> support. This I am trying to do, but the SOUNDCARD stalls the kernel
> rebuild. I DO want soundcard support, but it says something about the
> sb16_mpu port not being set right, and aborts the compilation. If I make
> sound card support a module, then 'make modules' stops instead.
> 
> PLEASE HELP ME!!! I'm desperate to get this baby up and running, but these
> problems are really really causing my grief. If you know of a solution,
> post it to this newsgroup and cc a copy to me so I know that people are
> responding ...
> 
> Thanks for ANY help!! :) I don't wanna go back to windows!
> 
> --
I seem to remember something in the Sound HOW-TO about the probe of the 
sound could upset the ethernet card. 
If this is the case, configure the sound card driver header (in my case 
sbpcd.h) to set the parameters for the card and to set the DISTRIBUTION 
to 0. Setting the DISTRIBUTION to 0 turns off the sound card probe.
You would have to configure the kernel as well then do the compile 
as noted in the HOW-TO.

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Ian Cowell
icowell@mpce.mq.edu.au
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