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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] ifconfig illegal instruction on 386ex
  • Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 01:10:15 +0000 (UTC)

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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