mcushman
12-14-2003, 05:39 PM
OK Here's the stories of my travails with knoppix:
First I booted my new knoppix 3.3 cd, seemingly with success. I then discovered that ethernet wasn't working. ifconfig told me my nic was up, drivers loaded, etc., but it was dropping all packets (Rx?) and dhcp was not working. I was stumped for a while. By chance I noticed after a uname -a that the kernel Knoppix had chosen for me was SMP. I have but one athlon. So I tried using the cheat codes
knoppix nosmp noacpi pci=biosirq, to see if that would fix things. It found my athlon, booted, and lo! I had net access. But wait - for some freakish reason after rebooting and using the exact same cheatcodes I get this: Everything works fine, UNTIL I TOUCH THE KEYBOARD. Press any key, and she hangs like the scrotum of a sasquatch. This makes me sad. Any ideas?
First I booted my new knoppix 3.3 cd, seemingly with success. I then discovered that ethernet wasn't working. ifconfig told me my nic was up, drivers loaded, etc., but it was dropping all packets (Rx?) and dhcp was not working. I was stumped for a while. By chance I noticed after a uname -a that the kernel Knoppix had chosen for me was SMP. I have but one athlon. So I tried using the cheat codes
knoppix nosmp noacpi pci=biosirq, to see if that would fix things. It found my athlon, booted, and lo! I had net access. But wait - for some freakish reason after rebooting and using the exact same cheatcodes I get this: Everything works fine, UNTIL I TOUCH THE KEYBOARD. Press any key, and she hangs like the scrotum of a sasquatch. This makes me sad. Any ideas?