Jim Perrin wrote:
If this is who I think it is, we worked for a couple hours yesterday morning (EST) trying to get this system working. lspci shows NOTHING on his box, so it's new enough that even pci stuff doesn't play nicely. It's possible that 4.3 will fix him (or at least get pci stuff working) in the next month or so whenever it comes out, but for right now, his board is pretty much a paperweight that wastes electricity.
Well, there are a couple sources for newer kernels without having a redhat subscription - if there will be support in 4.3 it will be in one of these two places first: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/RPMS.kernel/
If this is going to be a desktop, slapping windersXP ultimate gold pro platinum edition, gentoo, or maybe ubuntu on it might get it working, but for a system designed as a server I wouldn't trust it. Sell the board and use the money to buy some supported hardware. BJS actually linked to a decent board in an offlist post that can be had on the cheap. This current board isn't gonna get it in RHEL4 or centos4... not for a while anyway.
No arguments there, but everyone's definition of server is a bit different. Some hold your critical databases, some are for playing counterstrike :-p Obviously it is a server on the cheap, so I figure he'd want to get it running at the lowest cost.
Greg