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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Rainer Desor wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have successfully installed BL 3.40 on a old 386EX PC with 8MB RAM.
> Everything works fine until
> I tried to implement network. I loaded 8390.o and ne.o for my UM9008 based
> ethernet card. But when I tried to start network with "ifconfig eth0
> <ipaddress>" I got "Illegal instruction". Same with ping <ipaddress>.
> Searching internet I found something like "floating point support missing"
> could be the reason.

Does your computer have a floating point unit (FPU)?  387 chip.
Does the BL3.40 kernel provide fpu emulation?

> Is this the reason and how can I get network running with baslinux on the
> 386EX?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Rainer Desor / Bovenden / Germany
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