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
Dave:
Yah, an old machine. Although I am prepared to go out and buy a new cheap crash-and-burn system, I'd like to postpone that for as long as possible.
Some clarifications:
The machine has two ethernet controllers. The first one (the 3com 3c905) is used as eth0, and was configured to be my external link. As I mentioned earlier, that card worked in FC1 after turning kudzu off.
The second (realtek) is currently unused; the machine is a crash-and-burn version of a future gateway, hence the two NICs.
Also, I run command line only (no graphics).
Enclosed is the lscpi -vvx output as an attachment
David
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