[Quantian-general] Quantian .7.9.2 and Averatec 1000 problem

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 31 January 2007 at 06:09, louis homer wrote:
| On Tuesday 30 January 2007 17:39, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 29 January 2007 at 18:48, louis homer wrote:
| > | The boot then continues to stage 3, the last line displayed is:
| > |
| > | 'Network device eth1 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP.'
| > |
| > | The computer just hangs there.  I need to use the emergency poweroff to
| > | restart things.
| > |
| > | Suggestions please.  What can I do about the warning? Any other
| > | suggestions about hardware that should be excluded?  Please be specific
| > | about suggestions with correct syntax, since I am a novice, and just
| > | telling me to go there and do this may not be very helpful.
| >
| > With respect to booting and hardware detection, Quantian really is "just"
| > Knoppipx so please try the Knoppix cheatcodes and other tricks offered on
| > the Knoppix help forums.
| >
| > Hope this helps, Dirk
| 
| 
| It did help, thankyou.  booting with nodhcp solved the boot problem. Now I 
| have a system that doesn't see the internet, so I guess I have to figure out 
| how to solve that problem.

Much better! At least you are up and running on that machine. 

Just a guess, but it may have failed to bring the primary (or secondary,
eth1) network device up properly which leads to the hanging computer.  Try to
Google around for the particular piece of hardware, it may need different
initialization.  If that hypothesis is correct, and if you knew what was
needed, you could then at least load and initialize the device manually in
Quantian. Once that is done, you should be able to re-request dhcp service
from your server or router and be good to go.

You may have to expand some elbow grease on this for this particular Quantian
version.  

Hope this helps, Dirk

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