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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Anders Karlsson <anders.karlsson@meansolutions.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spacewalker SS40
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 12:57:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D1F62B5.30502@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020630151510.GA21888@alien.meansolutions.com

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have very recently bought a Shuttle SS40 and I have installed Debian
> Woody on it. During the install process everything works fine, and the
> machine installs nicely. Then I started adding a few of the things I
> like in all systems, like a 2.4 kernel for example. 
> 
> Debian Woody have 2.4.16 and 2.4.18 up for grabs, and I have tried
> both. The problem with the 2.4 kernels seems to be that PCI does not
> get recognised or enabled. Hence things like networking, USB and
> IEEE1394 becomes unusable.
> 
> I have tried to get 2.4.19-rc1 installed, but as that does not compile
> for various reasons I have not yet been able to test it.
> 
> Please find attached the output from /proc/pci, the output from lspci,
> lspci -v as well as the output from dmesg when I boot the 2.4.18-k7
> kernel.
> 
> Should any other details be required, let me know. I do not subscribe
> to the list, so I will look in the archives for responses but would
> appreciate it if I was CC'd.
> 
> Looking forward to hearing what the cause of the problem might be.

I don't know the exact problem, but if you add: pci=bios to
the kernel boot comand line args, then it seems to work fine,
at least with RH 7.3.

I'm also running a rc1 kernel w/out problems on it.

Ben




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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-30 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-30 15:15 Spacewalker SS40 Anders Karlsson
2002-06-30 19:57 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2002-07-01  7:15   ` Anders Karlsson

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