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Re: Dedicated Server on Athlon 1200 w/Debian



Mailing List <listonly@webpresencegroup.net> [2002-11-13 07:12:18 -0600]:
> We are looking at setting up a dedicated box for a client and on of our
> vendors sells white boxes with a Athlon AMD processor 1200 +  and the mother
> board is a SiS, with a Realtek built-in NIC card, which I would be willing
> to kill and use a 3-Com.

I have several similar configurations.  Should work fine.

The Realtek is probably fine.  But note that it is compiled into the
bf24 kernel but not into at least some of the optimized kernels.  For
example I know that in the Debian k6/k7 kernel it is a module.  While
being automatically detected during an install it must be manually
loaded when doing an upgrade.

Therefore moving from the 2.4.18-bf24 install kernel to the optimized
2.4.18-k7 kernel will lose your network driver!  You have to put the
module in /etc/modules at that time in order to load it with the
optimized kernel.

This has led to some frustrating moments when this is not known and
some fud about it being bad.  Compare this to if you had installed on
a tulip driver card then you would have needed to select it at install
time and that would have carried over.  Not really the card's fault,
just the choice of including it in the install kernel but not the
optimized kernel.  Also, modconf does not know about it, that I know
of, and therefore this is definitely a manual step and that is
sometimes more than people can handle.

Bob

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