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Madainn I have an old 233Mhz noname alpha machine that I would like to put Linux
on. It is just the motherboard and I
have mounted it in a plain old PC case. It
seems to run the ARC firmware so I am using I installed Red Hat 7.1 fine and it runs well but the
network card does not work. There is no built
in card although some of the websites I have seen imply that there should be. I tried several NICs including
Intel eepro, 3Com 905c, and others that work great
with Linux on Intel. None of them work. I am trying to use DHCP and it times out all
the time. When I do an ifconfig I don't see any eth0 info. I tried to recompile the kernel and compile the card support
in directly. I tried 2.4.3, 2.4.9, and
2.4.17. No luck. So, I tried Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.1. Both of those seem to segfault
or kernel panic early in the install. I notice that Mandrake Cooker seems to have the very latest
stuff compiled for Alpha but I have no idea how to make CDs from the Cooker archive
and am not even sure how to install that distro given
the disk images provided. I don't
think I can boot from CD using Does anybody know how I can get the network going on Red Hat
or how to install Mandrake Cooker on this machine? Even a pointer in the right direction would be much appreciated. Thanks. Justin Malcolm |