On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 17:23, david wrote: > Folks > > A few problems; I'm not sure they're independent. > > During initial bootstrap, I see the messages > > ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP Hmm, looks like your system doesn't support ACPI. Which makes sense for an old box. > abpart: Unsupported Intel chipset (device id 1237) Ah, thats an ancient 440FX chipset. Which doesn't have AGP iirc. lspci -vv output please. (as root). It should be just ignoring devices which don't have AGP, and I sent some patches to Linus just this afternoon that should fix this scenario, so they'll turn up in a Fedora kernel update soon too. > And the Ethernet controller doesn't work (with a message "check cable") > > The machine in question is > Dell Workstation 400 MT > The Ethernet "lights" are showing on both ends of the connection. What ethernet controller is it ? (Again, the lspci output will be needed for this). Dave
