Re: [Ltsp-discuss] EMachine EOne as Terminal Client

[John K. <jk...@cs...>]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Rick Gatewood said:

> On Monday 30 December 2002 11:41 am, John Karns wrote:
> >
> > Sorry I can't give a really specific answer re Linux on the EOne, but the
> > requirements for an LTS client are pretty much limited to X compatibility
> > on the machine.  As a preliminary test, I've found that booting Linux from
> > CD (several options available - e.g., Knoppix, SuSE Live) can prove
> > helpful in determining general Linux compatibility.
> >
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> > John Karns                                        jk...@cs...
> >

> It is interesting that you proposed Knoppix as a test. I have been
> wanting to try that for some time, but I had to wait until I replaced
> my old cdburner with a drive that would do 700mb/80min cds. I
> sucessfully burned a copy of knoppix and tried it out. Amazing what
> Linux can do with 700mb of space!

Yes, Knoppix is very impressive overall, and does an excellent job in
detecting the hardware and running from 700MB of space - even includes
Star/Open Open Office.


> I tried it on the EOne and it installed and ran flawlessly with one
> exception.  It could not initialize the network card. As I feared, the
> worst part of running linux on the EOne is the network card. I will
> have to read up on that issue or try a pcmcia network card.)

Try "lspci -v" to see info on the netcard and other pci devices.  Just
because Knoppix doesn't successfully detect / configure your NIC doesn't
necessarily mean that you're sunk with Linux / LTSP though.  Use the info
from lspci to read through /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help,
assuming you have kernel source installed on a different machine.  Search
for info on the NIC in your machine.  Could be that you can get it going
with a little bit of tweaking.

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John Karns                                        jk...@cs...