> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:19:51 -0700 (MST)
> Reply-to: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> From: Adam Fritzler <afritz_at_delphid.ml.org>
> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Linux Q's
> X-To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Aaron Christopher Finney wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> The MCA support has just started picking up steam again. Alan Cox has
> started having fun with it, which usually means it will work quite nicely!
> MCA support will finally be at decent capacity in mainstream kernels
> starting with 2.2.x (as of yet no released). However, I don't know of any
> standard Linux distribution that currently has built-in MCA support.
> Although, I think I saw an mcascsi.s boot disk in Slackware 3.6. There's
> a web page floating around that links to hacked-up MCA-capable boot disks
> for Red Hat, etc.
>
> I've got many PS/2 55SX's (386sx-16, MCA+ESDI only) running Linux. They
> run suprisingly well (good use for all those boxes and boxes of MCA token
> ring and ethernet cards it seems _everyone_ has laying around :).
>
> af
If you find an website called MCA linux (has moved to different site)
http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/
the current linux kernel in it is 2.0.35. That person on that
website prefers no development kernels that other dirburations had
are always development kernel which I confirmed that when I d/l'ed
both types. That "MCA linux" worked on my P75 (8573-401)!
>
> ---
> Adam Fritzler
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> http://delphid.ml.org/~afritz/
> "Animals who are not penguins can only wish they were."
> -- Chicago Reader, 15 Oct 1982
>
>
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Pero, Jason D.
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