Re: ATX motherboards, Realtek Ethernet & SMP

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:28:02 -0400

> off the computer at shutdown:). I work with a ATX board and you can get
> information about everything inside the damn thing, like CPU temperatures,
> fan speed, etc. Wouldn't it be great to have /dev's showing these
> informations? You could even build a "poor man's" watchdog daemon... :P
> Are there any technical information concerning these aspects? Maybe in the
> end it boils down to reading BIOS data?

There is support for lm?? chipset that will report that data to you. I don't
have the url to it but I'm sure someone else replying knows it.

> - - I have a Realtek 8021 ethernet card that is being recognized as a NE-2000
> compatible. Anyone here uses this card? It is good? This question is
> related to the observation:

There are a lot of Realtek cards around. NE-2000 cards are basically broken by
design but are damn cheap. The NE-2000 driver has problems with the new APIC
code from time to time. I'd personally get a nice DEC Tulip real/clone card.

> . buggy hardware (like some 3com cards) -- i have seen reports of
> people having the black screen o' death with some 3com cards.
> That's why I asked about the Realtek.

Give the vger CVS tree a whirl and try the ne2000 PCI-only driver.

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