On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Rick Gatewood said: > On Monday 30 December 2002 11:41 am, John Karns wrote: > > > > Sorry I can't give a really specific answer re Linux on the EOne, but the > > requirements for an LTS client are pretty much limited to X compatibility > > on the machine. As a preliminary test, I've found that booting Linux from > > CD (several options available - e.g., Knoppix, SuSE Live) can prove > > helpful in determining general Linux compatibility. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > John Karns [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
> It is interesting that you proposed Knoppix as a test. I have been > wanting to try that for some time, but I had to wait until I replaced > my old cdburner with a drive that would do 700mb/80min cds. I > sucessfully burned a copy of knoppix and tried it out. Amazing what > Linux can do with 700mb of space! Yes, Knoppix is very impressive overall, and does an excellent job in detecting the hardware and running from 700MB of space - even includes Star/Open Open Office. > I tried it on the EOne and it installed and ran flawlessly with one > exception. It could not initialize the network card. As I feared, the > worst part of running linux on the EOne is the network card. I will > have to read up on that issue or try a pcmcia network card.) Try "lspci -v" to see info on the netcard and other pci devices. Just because Knoppix doesn't successfully detect / configure your NIC doesn't necessarily mean that you're sunk with Linux / LTSP though. Use the info from lspci to read through /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help, assuming you have kernel source installed on a different machine. Search for info on the NIC in your machine. Could be that you can get it going with a little bit of tweaking. ---------------------------------------------------------------- John Karns [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
