RE: No network on Noname box

[Justin Malcolm <Justin Malcolm Creo com>]

Mornin'

Is Mandrake 8.1 available for Alpha?  The latest I could find was 7.1.

Where would I get recent Mandrake ISOs?

Thanks.

Justin Malcolm

-----Original Message-----
From: James Fowler [mailto:santiago@cox.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:51 AM
To: Justin Malcolm
Subject: Re: No network on Noname box

You could just grab the latest Mandrake/Alpha ISOs and then upgrade when
cooker is released. 8.2 should be coming out very soon and 8.1 is a great
distro.
James
 On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Justin Malcolm wrote:

> 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 MILO.
>
> 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 MILO.
>
> 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
>

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