On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:43:01PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (or at least disabled the console blanking) > > How does one do that?
Justin had a view lines to disable console blanking and as far as I remember some script to do that setterm -term linux -blank 0 > /dev/tty0 setterm -term linux -powerdown 0 > /dev/tty0 setterm -term linux -powersave off > /dev/tty0 or you could change the blankinterval in drivers/char/console.c to zero, which schould disable console blanking once and forever ... > Anyway, we apparently have two problems: 1) 2.4.20ctx16 crashing (as > many others have seen), and 2) buggy Ethernet driver. See > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.dell.poweredge/3000 > > We have been running the bcm5700 driver. was there any reason for GBit networking, or is this "planning for the future" ... > There is a fixed driver available, but it's for 2.4.20 only. Is there any > ctx13 patch floating around anywhere that can be applied to 2.4.20? it shouldn't be too hard to adapt ctx13 to 2.4.20 (ctx14 is available for 2.4.20 at http://www.13thfloor.at/VServer/patches-2.4.20-ctx14/) but, as I mentioned several times, I would not look for the specific cause in ctx13-ctx16, because it seems to me like a probability issue (more/less likely with this/that) best, Herbert > > -- John
