What is the make/model of the laptop?
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 09:48, Bob File wrote:
> I am trying to install SuSE Linux 8.0 on an old laptop that I inherited.
> There is no CDROM, and the only network card I have is 10 mbs and my hub is
> 100 mbs, so unfortunately that route doesn't work. I've been trying to do it
> via the paralell port driver, but no luck as of yet. I've been trying to
> follow the plip howto instructions, but the error messages I see in
> /var/log/messages makes me think that perhaps I have some kind of hardware
> error. Here are typical lines pertaining to plip:
>
> Nov 16 07:11:15 dragon kernel: plip0: transmit timeout(1,86)
> Nov 16 07:11:23 dragon kernel: plip0: transmit timeout(1,c6)
>
>
> Nov 16 07:13:01 dragon kernel: plip0: receive timeout(2,86)
> Nov 16 07:13:01 dragon kernel: plip0: receive interrupt in error state
>
> The above messages are from the box that already has Linux installed and
> running and has a cdrom drive I can use. NFS is running.
>
> Over on the target laptop I get something similar in one of the consoles:
> plip0 timeout(1,87)
>
> The SuSE install from floppies lets me load modules. When I ask to load plip,
> it gives me parameter boxes to fill in, but I am unsure of what to put in
> them. I leave them blank and parport, parport_pc and plip all seem to load
> (lsmod). Over in another terminal I can see the messages reported when the
> modules load:
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x770) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
> parport0: irq 7 detected
> plip: parport0 has no IRQ. Using IRQ-less mode,which is fairly inefficient!
> plip0: Paralell port at 0x378, not using IRQ.
>
> SO... I fear that my problem may be the above lines - the IRQ for the paralell
> port on the laptop is not found correctly. I have not found any info on how
> to pass parameters to parport (parport_pc) or plip.
> Can anyone toss me a clue?
>
> Ethereal shows portmap protocol being used; when I expand the portmap datagram
> ti shows :
> Porcedure: GETPORT (3)
> Program: MOUNT (100005)
>
> source and target addreses are the ones I assigned to plip0 with ifconfig and
> they are also in /etc/hosts
> Have I forgotten something in another config file in /etc?
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