On Tuesday 31 December 2002 11:10 am, John Karns wrote: > 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] Thanks for the info. I will try that and I may explore using a pcmcia network card as well.
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