Re: 2 kernel panics

[Rumko <rumcic@xxxxxxxxx>]

So ... I can't expect a fix for this? I have time to setup the router
till tomorrow evening. Will this be fixed or should I move back to
openbsd? (and no, the fix it yourself and send the patches is useless
to say to me cause I don't know C let alone the kernel)

On 9/30/05, Rumko <rumcic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well this computer is used as a router/server ... and the next best
> available machine is a pentium 100 ... ... kinda a serious downgrade
> which i dont want ... i had openbsd before which probably has patches
> for this or what?
>
> On 9/30/05, David Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Rumko wrote:
> > > well ... as for the mainboard ... found 2 VIA chips (VT82C597AT and
> > > VT82C586B) don't know anything else about the mainboard, the processor
> > > is "CPU: Cyrix 6x86MX (167.05-MHz 686-class CPU)", has 128MB of RAM
> >
> > Unfortunately, many Cyrix-based systems from this era are questionable
> > -- they apparently played fast and loose with the specs, resulting in a
> > lot of memory corruption errors.
> >
> > If you have access to one and have a bit of time to kill, try moving
> > everything over to a similar Pentium or K6-2/3 system and see if the
> > problems go away.
> >
>