Re: RE Digital Venturis P166 thin clients problems PROGRESS!

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:03:08PM +1300, Craig Falconer wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Behalf Of  Diego Torres Milano
> > Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2004 12:14 p.m.
> > Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] Digital Venturis P166 thin clients problems
> 
> > If USB is not used, set
> > LOCAL_USB_ENABLED='0'
> > Perhaps is not the problem, but helps to save some RAM.
> > Use X 3.3.6.
> > Set PXES_DEBUG=1.
> > Delete console=null from kernel command line if present.
> > Increase BOOT_MESSAGES value.
> >
> > If everything fails, boot from CD and set NETWORK_CARD=dummy.
> > Then, in a command prompt
> > # autodetect -v net
> > # modprobe eth0
> > # dmesg
> > I hope this helps.
> 
> Yes thank you Diego...  I've managed to prove that it's a compile-time
> option to the 8139too module.  I've brewed a kernel that boots on the
> hardware bu turning on "Use PIO rather than MMIO"
> 
> My question now is how to use this kernel without disrupting the other
> machines.  Should I recompile the module?  Or should I compile a monolithic
> kernel for these machines?  What other kernel options are required?
> 
Do you need the same module compiled with different options for different machines ?
Or the same module works on any machine ?

pxesconfig allows you to manage both cases, and I think that even the 
monolithic kernel situation if you don't use autodetect.
pxesconfig supports specifying -s stockdir and -k kernel in the command
line, so you can have as many stocks, kernels, archs, etc. as you want.

> 
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