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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > BL2 RAMDISK works on this Compaq 5010
>
> I assume that is the default kernel.
>
> > 116MHz laptop computer.
>
> That's a strange speed.  Are you sure it's a Pentium
> not a souped-up 486?

Hwinfo says it is a 120MHz Pentium I.

> > p1 kernel 2.2.26
> > Starts to boot them almost immediately a screen full of:
> > CPU#0:  Machine Check Exception:
>
> I suggest you try the default kernel.

I tried the default and the PI kernel, both crashed identically.
No memory managers.

Onboard SB16 sound would have been nice for linux, but the onboard lucent 
win/lin modem does not work anyway ('failed to respond' after a half hour 
driver download).  I will put linux on his desktop instead.  This works 
with wireless in Win98.  They have started field testing of the free 
wireless network recently.

The wireless modules inserted in loop and ext2 linux on a desktop with ISA 
pcmcia slot, but iwconfig and iwlist segfault, with airo, which is the 
card they work with elsewhere.  Only the first time iwlist did work, and 
gave me a different list of addresses from in the kitchen.  Did not check 
udhcpc with a router signal.


> Cheers,
> Steven