Re: Network crash problem on PC164

[Linus Gasser <ineiti gmx net>]

Hello,
wow, you guyz saved my alpha. In fact I took a couple of hours today to do 
about everything you proposed to do. Beginnning with geneirc kernel, NoName 
(didn't work at all), and all. In the end I found that a stock 2.2.14-6.0, 
recompiled under PC164 does the job. BUT: I had to 

- enable PCI-QUIRKS
- disable IDE-DMA
- NO MODULES, everything COMPILED-IN
- and perhaps other things I didn't think about

One or the other might be just good luck. But which one, to be honest, I'm 
too tired now to test out!

I think it's
1) a shame that linux, the 'stablest OS' doesn't work well with alphas
2) it's great it does anyway
3) I'm happy fiddling around with it

So, your milleage may vary. But here I managed to burn a CD (oh yes, if you 
use cdrecord with 2.2.14-6.0, be sure to read README.linux in the 
cdrecord-directory, BEFORE you compile your kernel ;-), while copying from a 
NFS-mounted disk over the local network to my harddisk. So perhaps the next 
task will be to install this Redhat 7.0 (or debian?)

greets from a happy penguin (is this the 13th astrological chart??)

Ineiti