topic Re: Omnibook XE3 - modem and LAN not working in Operating System - Linux

Omnibook XE3 - modem and LAN not working

Busico Mirto Silvio — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 05:55:55 GMT

I have an Omnibook XE3 notebook.
A LILO dual boot with MS Windows 98 and Linux SuSE 7.1.
Due to an IRQ conflict neither the integrated modem nor the integrated LAN card are working (I'm using a 2.4 kernel).
With windows everything works fine.
Can anyone help me to setup Linux in order to solve these conflicts?
Is there any forum dedicated to Linux on Notebooks?
Thanks
Mirto

Re: Omnibook XE3 - modem and LAN not working

Mark Fenton — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:09:05 GMT

Mirto, I saw such a site the other day when I was researching which notebook systems were supported by linux:

http://mobilix.org/

might be a good place to start your research.

Best regards,
Mark

Re: Omnibook XE3 - modem and LAN not working

Kodjo Agbenu — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 21:10:03 GMT

Hi,

Could you please post the result of :

cat /proc/ioports
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/pci

Did you enable PCI IRQ sharing in your Linux Kernel configuration ? Please check option "CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ" in /usr/src/linux/.config before building your linux 2.4 kernel.

Did you disable the "PnP O/S" in BIOS ? Although Linux supports PnP, sometimes it works better if the BIOS does initialization of peripherals (IRQ, I/O ports) before Linux boots. Moreover, for some peripherals you may have to add "append ..." lines in /etc/lilo.conf to force I/O port and IRQ values, or if they are compiled as modules -> check /etc/modules.conf.

Good luck

Kodjo