V3.4-2004-05-10 (small updates)

[bighusky]

Hi

as with the first 3.4 release I am not able to boot 2 PC's with the 2.6 kernel. Both of them boot properly with the 2.4 kernel.
With 2.6 the PC's freeze completely (not even Ctrl-Alt-Del work) on the network adapter:
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<--->
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B

I'm no expert but maybe this will help.

Knoppix 3.4 hung the first time I tried it and here's what worked for me (This is a combination of things I saw elsewhere in the forum

At boot: enter "linux26 knoppix noscsi"

This loads the Linux 2.6 kernel without SCSI detection, which is where Knoppix hung on my computer.

No, this is a speparate issue. This is on both releases even with noscsi . It is freezing on the network adapter (way past the scsi detection on the first release and on the second they even removed the scsi detection for the 2.6 kernel).

Thanks for the reply

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[charlesfan]

Has anybody tried the "linux26 toram" parameter ?

it's great, now we have a precentage, and minutes count down.

[hkfczrqj]

Hi

I'm having this issue (bug?). After the scsi detection my PC freezes while checking for USB devices (I have no USB devices plugged in). Of course, this has nothing to do with scsi detection (I tested with noscsi, same results). This is with kernel 2.4 on the 2004-05-10 version... Kernel 2.6 works fine so far.

Is there anybody with the same problem?

Cheers...

[pc3]

i have tested this :

1) no sound card detected
2) no network

for sound, i have run sndconfig in root : okay
for network : no solution

[charlesfan]

i have tested this :

1) no sound card detected
2) no network

for sound, i have run sndconfig in root : okay
for network : no solution

could you specify your hardware models ??
so may be they could add it there for a future release ?

[charlesfan]

just found this on osnews.com

*The first automatic driver installation system for Linux

Overview of Driver On Demand

Driver on demand is an attempt to ease driver installations in linux.

http://driverondemand.sourceforge.net/

any plan to integrated this into a future Knoppix distrubtion ?

it would be great and you guys could spend more time and more focuse on building a better knoppix rather than just resloving "module / driver bugs"..

[RookieDDZ]

This small update fixed the lilo 99 issue when installing to HD. I have a dual boot with WinXP and Knoppix26 on a Dell 7500 laptop. Now all I need is to get my Atheros wifi working.

[RookieDDZ]

This small update fixed the lilo 99 issue when installing to HD. I have a dual boot with WinXP and Knoppix26 on a Dell 7500 laptop.

[boehmb]

This *small* update fixed ALL my problems with 3.4! Love it.

[da.phreak]

Hi

as with the first 3.4 release I am not able to boot 2 PC's with the 2.6 kernel. Both of them boot properly with the 2.4 kernel.
With 2.6 the PC's freeze completely (not even Ctrl-Alt-Del work) on the network adapter:
...
Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP
...
Both PC's have a Netgear FA310-TX card (DEC 2114x) which has worked with Xandros, Debian and Mandrake 10(with 2.6 kernel). With the 2.4 kernels it usually used the tulip driver from D.Becker but with Knoppix 3.4 and kernel 2.4 it actually uses:
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eth0: DC21140 at 0xec00 (PCI bus 0, device 9), h/w address 00:40:05:42:c3:40,
and requires IRQ15 (provided by PCI BIOS).
de4x5.c:V0.546 2001/02/22 davies@maniac.ultranet.com
...
Will get Mandrake 10 back on one of these to see what they are using in their 2.6 kernel.
P.S. Mandrake 10 is using the tulip driver:
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Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (May 11, 2002)
PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 0000:00:09.0
tulip0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
tulip0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
tulip0: MII transceiver #0 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at 0xec00, 00:40:05:42:C3:40, IRQ 15.
....

B

I have the same problem. Knoppix uses the driver de4x5 instead of tulip. The de4x5-driver just hangs at "DHCP broadcasting". I've installed to hd and changed the driver to tulip, which works fine. Maybe Knoppix should use tulip instead of de4x5 ? Or at least offer a cheatcode ?