up2date hanging and other problems on new VIA C3 processor

[Gregory Gulik]

I'm running Fedora Core 1 on several Intel and AMD based systems and 
I've never had this problem.

I installed Fedora Core 1 last night on a Syntax S635MP motherboard with 
a VIA C3 1.3Giga Pro processor.

The first problem I'm having is up2date hangs and won't update the system:

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Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1...

Fetching 
http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info...
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Fetching package list for channel: updates-released...

Fetching 
http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info...
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Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-1...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released...

Fetching rpm headers...
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I've tried using the default sources as well as mirrors and it's always 
the same thing.  I also had to use the --nosig option because for some 
reason it's always complaining it does have a valid Red Hat GPG key.  I 
re-imported the key several times and still it complains.  I did an MD5 
comparison of the key file to my other working systems and they match 
exactly.

The other problem I'm having is the CPU clock speed isn't recognized 
correctly.  It's supposed to be a 1.3Ghz processor yet /proc/cpuinfo 
shows only the following:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : VIA Samuel 2
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 796.466
cache size      : 64 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips        : 1589.24

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