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I am new to Linux, although I have a fair amount of end user experience with Solaris. In order to really understand Linux, I decided I would stop using Solaris and NT wherever possible, and work as much as possible with Linux. I decided that all I wanted to do, initially, was become very good at using Linux and operating it at a System Administration level. Note that I did not say that I wanted to install Linux or troubleshoot an installation. So, I decided to buy a Dell Inspiron 7500 with RedHat installed in the factory. As you will see, I was surprised to find that the RH certified configuration did not "just work" out of the box. In the initial configuration I set, I was unable to shutdown the laptop. When the shutdown process reached the point where it tried to shutdown the eth0 interface, it appeared to hang. I have also found that my NIC did not wake up properly after the machine was suspended. The symptoms are that the 3com network dongle light for 100 base T operations does not re-light, and subsequent attempts to use Netscape result in an error. I can't remember, but I think it was "no path to host" or something like that. The initial configuration had DHCP enabled. It worked as long as you didn't try to shutdown or put the laptop to sleep. I spent some time on Saturday and Sunday reading the PCMCIA project information here, and one of the hints given was to turn off DHCP and see if some or all of the problems resolve themselves. I did this, and put in an IP address that is free on my network. This had the effect of resolving my shutdown problem, but it did not resolve the suspend problem. In addition, and I think this is interesting, before the change the machine would beep twice during the boot process. This was at the time that the inserted PCMCIA cards were identified. After the change, there is only one beep during the boot process, but there are an additional three beeps early on in the user session. It seems like the network is not being initialized during the boot process, although the only thing I am going on to make this judgement is the fact that off LAN pings did not go through for about 40 seconds after I logged in on one occasion after I reconfigured to turn off DHCP. This is an edited version of the /var/log/messages file from the time I booted up this morning. Note that I have the clock on this system set to GMT.
Mar 6 13:11:00 localhost kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Mar 6 13:11:00 localhost atd: atd startup succeeded Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost crond: crond startup succeeded Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA services: Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost pcmcia: modules Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.14 Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: kernel build: 2.2.12-32 #1 Mon Oct 25 19:56:23 EDT 1999 Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: Intel PCIC probe: Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: TI 1225 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 4, mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq] [lat 168/32] [bus 32/34] Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq] [lat 168/32] [bus 35/37] Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,10 status change on irq 10 Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost pcmcia: cardmgr. Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost cardmgr[377]: starting, version is 3.0.14 Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost cardmgr[377]: watching 2 sockets Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x1000-0x107f Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Mar 6 13:11:01 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost cardmgr[377]: initializing socket 0 Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost cardmgr[377]: socket 0: 3Com Corporation 3CCFE575CT Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost rc: Starting pcmcia succeeded Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost cardmgr[377]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12-32/pcmcia/cb_enabler.o' Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost cardmgr[377]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12-32/pcmcia/3c575_cb.o' Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99L 5/28/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: cs: cb_config(bus 32): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5257 Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: fn 0 bar 1: io 0x200-0x27f Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: fn 0 bar 2: mem 0x60021000-0x6002107f Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: fn 0 bar 3: mem 0x60020000-0x6002007f Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: fn 0 rom: mem 0x60000000-0x6001ffff Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: vortex_attach(bus 32, function 0, device 5257) Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: eth0: 3Com 3CCFE575CT Cyclone CardBus at 0x200, 00:50:da:30:7a:a0, IRQ 3 Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: eth0: CardBus functions mapped 60020000->c8441000 Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, MII interface. Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7809. Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost cardmgr[377]: executing: './network start eth0' Mar 6 13:11:02 localhost inet: inetd startup succeeded Mar 6 13:11:03 localhost lpd: lpd startup succeeded I'd appreciate any help that fellow users and more experienced project members can provide.
Dave Aiello |
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