On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:20:14AM +0100, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Re. my astonishment at the non-workingness of this computer and the rtl8139 thing; I've answered my own question: This is a winputer. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.2/0452.html Lovely. I'm going home.... Jenny
Don't give up all hope, this is what I have at work hence all the "fun" I was telling you that I was having the other day. There are drivers for the NIC (the bit I was having the most trouble with) and everything else from Nvidia (I think only the NIC and the accelerated X drivers are non-free) but it sounds as though you will have some "fun" too.
Don't worry too much as I will of course be building a Debian kernel and other bits for this at some point so I will be able to help you out :)
I still think my boss did this as a "challenge" you couldn't get a less supported x86 motherboard if you tried (I suspect anyhow) and I may well give up on the onboard ethernet and just use a different PCI nic instead and may reccomend you do the same too. At least if you do that it will work ok with Debian and getting the thing online to upgrade will not be so difficult.
Adam