i810-tco module problems
 

I reinstalled Slackware 9.0 on my secondary system, which uses an OEM motherboard with the i810 chipset. Everything worked perfectly fine, until I restarted to make font changes. When the system came back up, the bootup was complaining, with this error:


insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/i810-tco.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/i810-tco.o.gz failed
i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/i810-tco.o.gz: init_module: No such device


That is repeated several times over during the bootup.

When I run 'insmod i810-tco', I get:


Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/i810-tco.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/i810-tco.o.gz: init_module: No such device



I'm fairly new to Linux, so I really have no idea what any of this means. One thought that crossed my mind, however: it's complaining about chipset problems. This motherboard is old enough that it doesn't have a heatsink on the chipset, and the system is in an area of low ventilation. Could it be overheating?

Compile and or turn on all acpi features before trying again, and it will probably find the device.

By compile, I assume you mean 'recompile kernel', which I did. I made sure to include all the ACPI stuff. After it finished and I rebooted with the new kernel, it's still giving me the same error.

I'd like to add that this problem is also effecting my NIC, as I cannot get any network access of any kind, while I could before i started recieving this error.