[3258] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Re 3c905c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sat Jan 6 01:11:14 2001
Message-Id: <200101060611.BAA02182@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sly@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jan 2001 05:52:34 GMT."
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Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 01:11:09 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> FYI: The Dell GX110's we deploy for standard Linux Athena cluster
>> machines have the 3c905c Ethernet NIC. The IS install floppies have the
>> etherboot code for that NIC on them. If the SIPB Linux Athena
>> installation lacks support for the 3c905c NIC, then it won't work for
>> the Dell GX110's we're recommending people buy!
Except this isn't the observed behavior. SIPB has a GX110,
pickled-herring.mit.edu, which was installed with the SIPB installer
reasonably recently:
[zacheiss@riff-raff] ~> athinfo pickled version
Installed by SIPB Installer on Mon Dec 4 20:47:05 EST 2000
Athena Workstation (linux) Version 8.4.0 Mon Dec 4 20:47:05 EST 2000
Athena Workstation (linux) Version Update Tue Dec 5 01:51:14 EST 2000
Athena Workstation (linux) Version 8.4.17 Tue Dec 5 01:58:21 EST 2000
Athena Server (linux) Version Update Tue Dec 5 02:00:07 EST 2000
Athena Server (linux) Version 8.4.17 Tue Dec 5 02:00:27 EST 2000
The SIPB installer is also known to work with the older GX1s.
Garry
