First post, by jjjacer
I have an intergraph TD1, 486 66mhz 52mb ram desktop PC
Built in Adaptec AIC-7770 Scsi controler
Built in AMD PCNet/Lance NIC
SoundBlaster ct2940
I am running into nothing but issues getting sound and networking to work
A long time ago i did have networking when it was running slackware 9.1 (detected under the Lance driver), but i dont remember having sound
I however have moved from using an IDE hard disk to a BlueSCSI SD adapter.
For some reason almost all linux 2.4 kernels seem to fail to detected the scsi card (Slackware 9.1, DSL, BasicLinux)
I was able to get Redhat 5.2 on kernel 2.0 to detect and install on the scsi drive although, i cant get sound to detect and although i can get the NIC to detect by passing io=0x360 to modprobe, it doesnt seem to pass traffic when i enable the interface, also shows alot of dropped received packets
When it detects with modprobe it lists it at IRQ5 and DMA5, which makes me wonder if its conflicting with the soundcard (in DOS it only gives option to set card to IRQ5)
As far as DOS is concerned, it detects the soundcard fine, although in windows 3.11 and windows 98 it seems to lock up when playing sounds further making me wonder if there is a conflict, and windows 3.11 seems to not be able to initialize the NIC after installing the sound card drivers
NT4 does the same thing as linux, it detects the NIC but cant pass traffic, it also is unable to add the sound card as it says their is a conflict
Not sure what to do at this point, in reality i would like to get a newer linux installed (maybe 2.6 or 3.0 kernel) but almost no distros will boot on a machine with this little ram, i would go with 2.4 kernel but as stated it appears to not like my scsi card
Otherwise im wondering if i should just get an ISA network card that hopefully doesnt conflict with the sound card, as finding a cheap sound card that can be configured by jumpers is not easy.
Also note this system is EISA however i cannot find the config utility for it nor the EISA config files for the board. Which might be another reason im having issues.