I became curious when I saw Version 2.0 on a CD in a Linux-Magazine and tried to boot it on my laptop (Packard Bell Easy Note R-series with an AMD Mobile Sempron 3100+ and 1 GB RAM and ATI Radeon Xpress 200M). Booting was quite o.k. with it (o.k., I had numerous faults ACPI and CPU... ?), but I got it started. When I wanted to go into the internet (I have a router, DHCP), it couldn't connect. I found out, that my onboard-network-card ULI PCI Fast Ethernet Controller (in Windows: ULILAN.SYS) could not be found. I hoped, the problems will vanish with version 2.4, but they didn't, they became even more: booting stops now at the point: searching for for USB and then the system completely freezes (so I have to remove the Akku to get my laptop boot again). I tried severall boot options, but nothing helps: the laptop freezes always at USB... Any help, how I can boot version 2.4 (I also tried the new RC 3.0, but I have the same problems, too) ? And how can I get my network-card detected ?
Thanks
Andreaswhich boot options did you try?
torp
Quote (torp @ June 13 2006,09:39)
which boot options did you try?
torp
hmm,
I don't know by heart, but I think "expert" (first I wanted to autoload all modules, then some modules separately, but I didn' know which one to select / deselect), the "toram", then "no acpi" and I don't know what ever. Maybe it helps, I have 3 x USB 2.0 (two in the back and one in the front side).
Even Knoppix 4.02 (with a 2.6 Kernel) hangs at the same point ... May it depend on the BIOS ? When I disabled "USB enabled" or something like that, I could not boot any more from my USB-Stick. But any way: it hangs both - with my boot-CD or with my USB-Stick
I have also tried a new version of Morphix (with a 2.6 Kernel and icewm). This one booted completely, but I also could not connect to the internet (although my onboard-netcard seemed to be found as eth0).... Here I did a "ifconfig eth0 up" (so eth0 was set up) and I think a dhcpclient or something simular.