Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 6 May 1996 17:58:12 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Hoffman <> | Subject | Re: Nx586 - NexGen work fine with Linux??? |
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On Sun, 5 May 1996, Ian Stoyle wrote:
> >Does anybody have a Linux installed at NexGen Nx586 machines?? > > > >I'm receiving a couple off errors from eth0... > > > >--------8< * Cut Here ------------------- > > > >eth0 mismatch read page points 4c vs 4d > > > >--------8< * Cut Here ------------------- > > > Yes I do, and had the same problem with an NE2000 card until on > 1.3.15 but the 8390 driver with 1.3.97 seems to have fixed this, but > strangely enough the 3C509 driver I was using seems to have broke in this > version, also if I try a ps -u I get a "Floating point exeption" that i've > never seen before. > > Other strange happennings are that I can only compile as a 386 > machine as the kernel seems to think I have a 386 (perhaps theres a kludge > for my bios) and if I modify bugs.h to allow a 486 or 586 compiled kernel > run on my 586 it crashes as soon as the "AHA1540-2" and associated nits > have finished I get an unknown opcode 0000. > > --Have a Nice Day, Ian > > > > Well Ian, you haven't been reading this group =). you are geting the Floating point exception on ps -u cuz you need the new PROCPS package, v0.99a. and, we ALL know that nexgen 586's report themselves as i386's. :>
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