havner wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > What's the recommended kernel for this machine? > I've only managed to boot 2.4.17 from debian and 2.4.18 > http://www.xs4all.nl/~vhouten/mipsel/vmlinux-2.4.18-decR3k.ecoff.tgz This is very old. > Unfortunately both of them freezes system (RH7.1/RH7.3) f.e. when trying to > cat /proc/cpuinfo. No oops, no message on serial, just hard freeze. Fixed in newer 2.4 kernels from linux-mips.org. > using rpm also likes to freeze this machine. I've tried co cross compile > kernel from cvs at linux-mips.org, but it stop at boot time just after > setting high precission timer. vanila kernel (2.6.7) ends with kernel panic. linux-mips.org CVS, -r linux_2_4, should work for serial console. Debian has a r3k-kn02 kernel package for mipsel which is supposed to work as well. Thiemo
