On Thu, 02 May 2002 11:08:36 BST, Colm Buckley said:
>>I installed Debian on very similar boxes to these (I assume it's a
>PowerEdge 2550, given the PERC3/Di) with no trouble - however I needed
>to install additional drivers for the PERC (it's on Dell's site, and
>it's in the stock Linux kernel from 2.4.8 or thereabouts).
Yop, the boxes with the worst gigabit card in the world ever. (tm)
Have you ever seen the source for the workarounds that the
*manufacturer* (Broadcom) supplies? Frightening... they work (just
about).
Other than that, great boxes.
--
Niall
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