Reaz Baksh said: > Hello > > Can someone please help me with these questions? > > > > -I have Debian 3.0 running on a dual PIII Compaq. Does Debian recognize > and utilize both CPUs? Is there a way I can check that Debian does use > the two chips?
look in the bootup log(hold shift key and press PAGE UP). Or a faster way is cat /proc/cpuinfo. You should see an entry for CPU 0 and CPU 1 if it detects both CPUs. if it does not run uname -a and look for a SMP line in the output (e.g. 2.2.19 SMP). If SMP is not present in that line then the kernel is not capable of SMP operation and you need a kernel that can. Either compile your own(my personal preference) or install another binary kernel, apt-cache search kernel-image | grep -i smp then apt-get install the package you want .. > kernel version it can't find a whole set of modules. How do I add this > driver to the Debian system? I'm using Kernel 2.4.18-bf24. installing a driver from source is a significantly more complicated operation. If you can post a url to the file I can take a look. Basically you need the kernel-header packages for your kernel, as well as development tools for compiling. It's a good experience to do, though for someone who has not done it before it may be a very lengthy and perhaps frustrating task, if infact the driver works at all. You mention 2.4.2. ..a very very old kernel, perhaps it won't even compile against 2.4.20, or 2.4.18 if you want to save yourself some trouble I reccomend getting a 3com or intel NIC instead. Realtek 8139s work good too, though my most recent 8139 is 2 years old(works great though). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
