Mandrake Linux 9.0 and mouse trouble... CAUSE FOUND

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Mandrake Linux 9.0 and mouse trouble... CAUSE FOUND

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If anyone's got familiarity with this OS or linux in general and can help, take a look at my thread over <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... <!--EZCODE LINK END-->.<br><br>EDIT: Ok, this is what I found out as the cause of the trouble... why, I still don't know!<br><br>It appears that if I set up both of my ethernet cards in Linux, it somehow kills the mouse! <br>Did a reinstall, the mouse worked. Decided not to install any software packages, but then used drakconf (text mode) to set up the two network cards. <br><br>Next bootup, mouse was dead! <br><br>Reinstalled again, this time with a strong suspicion of what might be happening. Installed one or two software packages, went into X, no problems. <br><br>Reboot, no problems. <br><br>Setup my first ethernet card (which goes out to my cablemodem). No problems. Reboot, no problems! <br>I'm nearly positive that if I set up my 2nd ethernet card, it will nuke the mouse upon the next bootup. Particularly since, with my first attempt with installation, I didn't set up the 2nd ethernet card for several days. Not so with my subsequent installations! <br><br>Anyway, so it's my FIC board, with a PS/2 mouse, an SMC EtherEZ ISA card for the cablemodem (smc-ultra driver), and the NIC I'm afraid to setup now is a RealTek 8019LT ISA (uses ne1000/2000 ISA driver) <br><br>Hmph . . and I couldn't use the SMC in combo with any of my lot of 3Com 509 ISA cards because somehow that combination would bugger up file-sharing in Windows. <br><br>Now I guess I just have to figure if it's drakconf that screws things up when it sets up multiple ethernet cards, or if somehow it's the ne1000/2000 driver that buggers up the mouse, or just the combination of those particular NIC models with a PS/2 mouse. <br><br>Weird...... <p>--------------------<br>FIC PA-2013 2.0 E-O036, K6-2+ 450 @ 500 1.9V<br><br>FIC PA-2013 2.0 E-O036, K6-III 450AFX @ 500 2.2V<br><br>Acer Quasi-proprietary Mid-Tower with P-II 266</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub70.ezboard.com/bk6plus67153.s ... ykingv>His Royal Majesty King V</A> at: 2/27/03 12:46:39 am<br></i>
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sound to me kinda IRQ conflicty<br><br>i dunno how IRQ stuff is done in linux but if it was windows thats where i would be looking first<br><br>just a thought anyway <p></p><i></i>
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Strange thing is that Windows has no problems whatsoever with this setup!!<br><br>Anyway, on the Linux boards, it was suggested that maybe the drakconf setup software might not be all it's cracked up to be.<br><br>So with the SMC card and everything else already set up, I was told to try first doing:<br>modprobe ne<br><br>followed by <br>ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1<br><br>This seemed to work fine, and since my LAN wasn't set up, all I could really do was ping 192.168.0.1 which was successful.<br><br>Of course, it doesn't automatically start the card on bootup, so I guess I'll have to figure out how edit things so that it does. But not until I've moved to the house, got the LAN set up, and tested whether I can send/receive traffic through 192.168.0.1<br><br>Weird though... <p>--------------------<br>FIC PA-2013 2.0 E-O036, K6-2+ 450 @ 500 1.9V<br><br>FIC PA-2013 2.0 E-O036, K6-III 450AFX @ 500 2.2V<br><br>Acer Quasi-proprietary Mid-Tower with P-II 266</p><i></i>
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I've given up on Linux for a while. I'm gonna let it ripen for another year before I delve back into it.<br><br>My latest Operating System pursuit?<br><br>PPC2002!!!!!<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/products/ ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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