> Just inherited a 75Mhz pentium with 32Mb of Ram and an eitherlink III card
> (3c509B). I put Mandrake 7.1 on it and, although it found the card at
> install after re-boot it loses the card. If I modprobe the 3c509 driver
> manually then stop and re-start networking it's happy again. Where should
> I look to fix this?
you should be able to manually load the module before it brings up the
network (in /etc/rc.d/init.d/somewhere).
> On another point, running X and netscape it runs like a dog! The Mandrake
> install (with gnome-sawmill) was unusable. I tried fvwm2 but it didn't seem
> to make much difference. Redhat seemed slightly better and surprisingly I
> stuck E 0.16 on and it seems to be the best (though still woeful, it's
> swapping like crazy and I've shutdown every service I can think of).
icewm is fairly lightweight while still being functional, although
i doubt the wm will make too much difference.
http://icewm.sourceforge.net/
I've found adding more swap can solve "swapping like crazy" - doesn't make
sense, but i've seen it work.
use top to see what is running and shut down what you don't need - X and
netscape will be your biggest hogs but on a standard Mandrake install
you probably have sendmail, half a dozen apaches and other stuff you
probably don't want if you are just using it as a web surfing box.
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