re: Installing RH 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop-Solved!

Dear all

The problem 2 (eth0 failed) has now been solved by spending considerable time
tweaking System Tools/Network Device Control settings. The main trick seemed
to be to opt for a "static set IP addresses" in place of "automatic obtain IP
address".

The audio player xmms did not work; I had to track down a patch at
gurulabs.com, but this fixed the problem right away.

So now this laptop is very good shape.

Thanks for the help

Greg

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Subject: re: Installing RH 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:16:12 +0200
From: Greg Goldstein <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]


I have been trying to install RH 8.0 (and 7.2 and 7.1) on an Inspiron
2500. One problem has been solved.

re: problem 1. The X-server always crashes when I try to start X after
installation. I can run the laptop at runlevel 3, it seems normal.

Solution: The problem was that the installation process finds the
correct video card, but sets it to have 16MB of memory by default.
When I re-installed RH8.0 and set it to 4MB everything worked fine. (I found
this solution by searching the archive of
//groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dell-laptops)



re problem 2. I found that "bringing up eth0" always gave the result
"failed" . The network interface is i82557 using the kernel
module eepro100, which is known to be compatible.

I do not have a solution to this problem yet. Here is an extract from
/var/log/messages:



I attach the entire messages file - it is clear the network card is found and
identified.

Any suggestions on problem 2 will be much appreciated!

Greg


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