Torsten Zirzlaff (zirzlaff@nienor.s.bawue.de)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:18:59 +0200
>>>>> "Albrecht" == Albrecht Jacobs <aj@klee.architektur.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
Albrecht> First of all we should know the target platform. My
Albrecht> following statements apply to PC164UX (Ruffian).
Well, a little bit antique but still nice to work a AXP-pci33 (Noname)
Albrecht> My starting point was RH 5.2 with several upgrades
Albrecht> (glibc-2.1,...).
Hm, what improvements I had to expect with glibc2.1?
Albrecht> I took the latest MILO image from alphalinux.org which was
Albrecht> build agains 2.0.36 if I am right. I failed to build MILO
Albrecht> against 2.2.5
Fine, I try to fetch that to.
Albrecht> I made several modules but tulip.o is the only one I am
Albrecht> using until now. I am not entirely happy with the tulip
Albrecht> driver (0.90q). I have to force 100Mbit with 'options' and
Albrecht> force full duplex with dip switch on the hub.
Well, I use a 3com509 and think more in the line of filesystems,
CD-rom, etc. So far I could not complain with this card, but it's Plug
& Pray. Would the plug&play option help here?
Albrecht> I am currently in the process to solve a problem with
Albrecht> 'hwclock' (util-linux-2.9o). At the moment there are several
Albrecht> workarounds. Easiest is use 'clock' from an older util-linux
Albrecht> package and disable 'hwclock'. knfsd isn't working until
Albrecht> now.
Thanks to the people who had responded to my inquiry in this
matter.
Ciao
Torsten
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