-----Original Message----- From: Bryan Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 15-Feb-05 22:07 To: [email protected] Cc: Subject: Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!) On Monday 14 February 2005 20:55, Melissa Allen wrote: > I have located the download page for the driver for my particular Intel > PCI modem and for Mandrake 10 and up. I'll guess that I need the > version for the default configured Mandrake 10.0 system, but what is > the "SMP configured" system? >Symmetric MultiProcessor. Usually servers although I have had this kernel >>get >installed by default on my Dell Laptop which only has a single processor. >Not sure why but I usually replace with a standard kernel and it doesn't >really affect anything. You probably want to stick to non-SMP kernels >since >my guess is that you have a single processor. Feel free to correct me if I >am wrong. Just a remark for others to comment on. My understanding (very preliminary) is that the Intel Hyper Threading technology (Pentium 4 3.2 GHz for example) uses the SMP kernel. The Hyper Threading Technology (copyright etc?) makes the processor look like two processors. I use one of these at work under a usoft operating system. The lads from Redmond make the processor appear to be two in all the reporting and diagnostic tools. I think Mandrake (Linux?) does the same. (In mcc go to "hardware" and open the "processors" tree. The HT processor shows as 2 processors.) Hugh
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