-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 June 2003 01:15 pm, Family Watkins wrote:
First question(s) for me on this partcular list but relatively experienced Linux user. Recently rebuilt an old PC ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (with builtin 3Com & Nvidia NICs) and AMD XP 2700+ CPU. Dual boot W2K & SuSE Linux 8.0 - vanilla install from CD distribution. 2.4.18-4GB kernel.
Two problems;
1) boot.msg reports;
<4> Detected 1293.093 MHz processor
I had the same problem and I had to manually set my processor speed in the BIOS setup. W2K is lying about the speed the processor is running at.
2) Can't get either of the builtin NICs to work. Checked the archives and found a discussion back in Mar-Apr tied to 8.2 and Nvidia - which didn't seem to be definitive. However I want to get the 3Com NIC working.
First you need 'acpi=off' on the 'kernel' line in /boot/grub/menu.lst or a number of onboard features will not work. Second, the 3Com NIC is not a 'true' 3Com NIC. The driver is supposed to work but I managed to get it working for an hour before it stopped responding to ARPs. I gave up on it and I'm now using the NVidia NIC using the NForce driver from http://www.nvidia.com . Also, if you're planning on using the Serial ATA, you need to do 'hdparm -X66 - -d1' to get DMA working properly on any SATA drives (/dev/hd[ef]). Other combinations caused my machine to crash almost immediately. Now my SATA drive is amazingly fast (55 Mb/s). - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5J9D+FOexA3koIgRAm3wAJwLrz1PrlE8QWf9FPXxV9Pt3Pr9kgCfdMA0 BrRt56ftEieJhs47QPH25Ns= =FwqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----