Debian 2.2r3 and ECS K7S5A w/ onbaord SiS900 NIC

[glc]

Issue 1: dual booting
I modified lilo.conf to allow Win2k to boot upon entering 'win' at the lilo prompt, however, 50% of the time Win2k fails to load. The loading bar stops at the 'C' in 'Corporation' while the bar above continues to flow accross the screen. I can leave the room for 10 minutes and come back to no change. When hitting reset and attempting to load Win2k again, it loads without a problem. This happends every time. I've yet to see Win2k load twice in a row or fail to load twice in a row.

Issue 2: SiS900 module
This is what I get when I try to install the sis900 module...
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/modules.dep

/lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/net/sis900.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

/lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/net/sis900.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/net/sis900.o failed

/lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/net/sis900.o: insmod sis900 failed

How do I get my NIC installed so I can browse the net/my LAN?

TIA>

[ 22 October 2001: Message edited by: glc ]

[kormoc]

Shutdown anything using that device and try again.

[Joeri Sebrechts]

For your lilo ailments, I suggest a real boot manager. Lilo is a linux loader. The fact that you can use it for booting other operating systems is merely a hack, just like windows's boot manager can be hacked to boot other OS's. My suggestion is xosl (www.xosl.org). Decent, independant, easily configured.

If the network card is PCI, autodetection is failing, and the solution most likely can be found in your bios (maybe the pnp os setting has something to do with it).
If it's ISA, you'll need to give address and IRQ arguments to the module. The same ones that you used in windows.

[glc]

Originally posted by Joeri Sebrechts:
<STRONG>If the network card is PCI, autodetection is failing, and the solution most likely can be found in your bios (maybe the pnp os setting has something to do with it).
If it's ISA, you'll need to give address and IRQ arguments to the module. The same ones that you used in windows.</STRONG>It's PCI (onboard) and I've tried w/ PNP OS set to no and yes.

I gave up on it this morning and installed an Intel Pro/100 S Management and the corresponding module installed w/o a hitch.

I can ping my LAN machines, however, I can't access the 'net. When I try to ping a web site (eg. yahoo.com) I get "unknown host", so I believe I just need to enter in my ISP's DNS servers (or my SDSL router's IP as the DNS). Is my thinking correct? If so, where do I enter my ISP's DNS servers? If not, how do I get online?

BTW, the lines I added to /etc/network/interfaces are:

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.3
network 192.168.1.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

Thanks for the help...

[ 22 October 2001: Message edited by: glc ]

[bdg1983]

DNS go in /etc/resolv.conf

domain your_isp_domain
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # dns 1
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # dns 2

[bdg1983]

Oh yeah, I forgot.

Try

touch /etc/modules.conf

touch /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/modules.dep

and that should give both files the same date/time stamp.