I am using Mandrake on my I-Opener. (I also have BeOS R4.5 on it and it
sucks.) Mandrake with KDE actually runs well (WinChip 200 and 32MB SODIMM
for those who don't know about the I-Opener; see
http://www.flinthills.com/~hevnsnt/ihacked/ if curious).
Try jumpering the Cable Select pins on your drive - some drives don't like
the I-Opener bios (or vice versa). But first, check the BIOS settings on the
boot sequence and drive recognition.
AFAIK, the current released Mandake (7.0) does not support USB ethernet. I
have queried about the just-released Mandrake 2.2 kernel, but no responses.
The 2.3 kernel is =supposed= to support it, but I haven't tried it. I have
heard that FreeBSD (or maybe NetBSD) supports it, along with Windows 98 (not
95 or 95B); BeOS does not. I opted out of using a USB ethernet device
because of these issues and use ppp to dial in to my desktop Linux box and
then ftp files from it.
Hoyt
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 8:04 PM
Subject: [Cooker] USB amd Netpliance
Has anyone been able to get LINKSYS to work with Mandrake either on the
current or the beta version? Secondly, I was one of the fortunate people
to receive an Netpliance PC as well. I was able to get mine work in win 98
(please I am shame I tried that first). I want to load Mandrake, but I get
a failure when I load it. The IDE laptop hard drive is hda and the flashrom
chip (a 16MB chip) is acting as hdb. Though I loaded it from my main
computer (which was only the laptop hard drive), it wants to load the hdb on
the Netpliance pc. The Bios screen shows 2 hard drive my laptop one and the
flashrom chip one. Is there way I can it not load the hdb to avoid my fs
mount failure?
I want to have the pc run Mandrake which is going to use the LINKSYS USB
ethernet device. If anyone else has had this problem or could shed some
light I would appreciate it.
Thank you in advance......
Cooker
