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