On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 12:42:31AM +0200, joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com wrote: > > 1. Does anyone else have a motherboard baised on a VIA Apollo 3 AGP > > chipset with 1Mb cache RAM? Or do I need a Intel 430TX type for > > absolute reliability/compatability? I'm looking at Biostar, DFI, and FIC > > brands. > > All chipsets are supported I think. Some older buggy chipsets are even > bugfixed in the linux kernel. VIA chipsets are supported as is AGP. One would theorize that VIA AGP is supported too then, but we know how that goes. => I'd say the odds quite highly favor it working. Someone wanna send me an Apollo VP3 board to test it on? <g> > > 2. Does X-Windows have support for the newer AGP video cards, specificly > > the Trident 9750 AGP video card? > > Why don't you check for yourself on www.xfree86.org? If you want to use > the newer xfree86 releases, you'll have to install packages from the hamm > section of the debian distribution. Currently, it is "frozen" and I don't > expect that it will be the "stable" release by early june yet. But that > shouldn't keep you from installing hamm, it is very stable in practice. AGP cards are supported under X, not sure about the specific one. > > 3. Will generic ethernet cards ($25 PCI 10Mbit/sec) run well enough to > > allow me to hook-up my Linux computer to a Win-95 (my parents) so I can > > have access to the internet through it? This would be initially so I > > can install Linux directly from the internet and later for internet access. > > Mine works fine. Yours probably too. A side note is that if you're getting a $25 PCI ethernet card, it's a PCI NE2000 type. This requires kernel 2.0.32, a standard if you use hamm. > About the internet access through win95, forget that: win95 can't do > routing and certainly not ip-masquerading (or did you get a subnet of real > ip addresses?) It can if you use something like Wingate. It'd be better to go the other direction once he's got Linux working okay though. Linux is a much better IP Masq server than Win95 anyday if nothing else because Linux supports it and Windoze emulates support for it. > With some knowledge and effort, you can make your linux pc do the > following (and much more): > > - internet router, firewall and masquerading host > - web server, for your own pages and as a caching proxy server for your > home network (speeds up internet browsing) > - mail server, for sending (smtp) and retrieving (pop3) mail and for > reading/keeping mailboxes on the server (imap/pop3) > - windows print, file and logon server (make it act like an nt server for > windows95) > - nameserver > - usenet news server > - fax server Just get the IP-Masquerade HOWTO (I think it's a mini but I'm not sure) You can add and remove routes in ip-up.d/ and ip-down.d/ (again talking about using hamm--the setup is a little different for bo) which is the Right Place to put it. Otherwise it's all there.
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