From: Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com

Unfortunately when I then upgraded to a later kernel (2.4.19 from 2.4.18-bf2) I lost the networking again :-) The first kernel image wouldn't boot at all as it seemed to be trying to mount "root=3:01" rather than /dev/hda1?

I had some kind of problem with this, it is to do with the root=/dev/hda1 line in lilo. On this machine root is /dev/hda3 but the kernel could not mount the disk here etc. I am not sure what is happening yet but when I get some more time to put linux on this box I will work it out then.

For all that onboard not-worky stuff I found a driver package on nVidia website, NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz but keep getting make errors. I don't even know if it contains the correct drivers. Adam - have you tried this?

Yes it does contain the correct drivers, but they are a selection of .o .h and .c files, you will need to have the kernel-headers for your running kernel installed to be able to compile the module. Of course I didn't get this far because of the booting any 2.4 series kernel problem, these drivers will not work with a 2.2 series kernel either.

So no XWindow (essential for the job this computer is required for) and only networking with one kernel image so far. Also can't find anywhere in BIOS to turn off either PnP OS or the onboard NIC.

Don't bother about turning off the onboard nic if you are going to use a PCI one. There was a BIOS update for this machine that I did install, I think it have an option to turn off the PnP OS, I will let you know later when I have had a chance to reboot this machine.

I'm about to waste a bit more time this morning doing a 2.4.20 build. Adam

• I think your boss did this because the computer is

currently on offer at a bargain price at Cambridge Computers - that's how come I ended up being bought one. The subsequent amount of hours at my hourly wage trying to get it working could have brought one twice as expensive and still been cheaper for them :-)

You know something you are 200% correct, I really dislike CCS and wish I could have gone to somewhere like WOC in Milton to get some kit, they are really supportive of Linux type things (well everything really) and have exchanged things for me many times which turned out to be a pain to get working. Spending the extra pennies at WOC has really helped me out in the past.

Adam