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New Mandrake install, hangs on boot

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Kibbo

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New install, Mandrake community 10.1, noob at Linux.

The boot proccess stalls when it gets to my Eth0 card, which is an SMC 2802 w 54g. According to one website, it should be supported by one of the native drivers, the one the installer defaulted to. The card does work with Knoppix, but it's hit or miss, I can never predict when it will work and when it won't. Wondering if I should have tinkered with one if the settings on config, much of which I left blank. I'm particularly thinking about the DHCP name. Should I hve just put in the IP address of my router? Or the external IP address for the gateway, where I put the internal one?(192. ...) What's the equivalent of an infrastructure network for Mandrake? I put "managed."

Is there a way to skip that part of the boot, so I can at least get in there to play around with the settings.

Also, a smaller problem, my XP boot seems to take FOREVER now, but I do get in here (obviously).

K, gonna go play around and swear a .lot. Hope you guys can help.
 
The network startup should eventually timeout and the system will continue booting. If it doesn't, boot the system with Knoppix and remove the symlinks to the network startup script from every run level like this:

rm /etc/rc?.d/*network*

Mandrake may possibly store all those rc#.d directories in /etc/rc.d, but most likely they're in /etc.

Once you can boot with Mandrake, try running the network startup manually from /etc/init.d. It's probably "network" or "networking." Use "sh -x" to see every command as it's executed like this:

sh -x /etc/init.d/network start
 
Thanks, but I got it to boot. Found a feature that allows me to authorize the boot proccess line by line, so I just hit NO for that item. Then changed my settings inside the OS.

Still can't figure out how to get the card to work, but I found prism54.org, who makes the driver for my card. Hopefully someone will answer my post there.

If anyone here has experience with SMC 2802 and the prism54 drivers, I'd love some basic set up advice. Their Wiki and Readme seem to be offline, so I'm having to piece together how to do it from various posts on the forum.
 
This is why I think more complex distros are best for noobies. Heck, you are going to have to dig in with linux ANYWAY, so you might as well start from scratch. 😛 Distros like Mandrake try to hide these problems from you but something always goes wrong anway...
 
Originally posted by: Kibbo
Thanks, but I got it to boot. Found a feature that allows me to authorize the boot proccess line by line, so I just hit NO for that item. Then changed my settings inside the OS.
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Now that you've got it to boot, run the network initialization with the "sh -x" option like I suggested above to see exactly where the problem is. Is the driver not loading? Can the card see anything on the network? Is DHCP timing out, etc.?

sh -x /etc/init.d/network

Also, run "dmesg | less" to check for kernel messages on startup about your card; your problem might be explained in those messages.
 
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