Hi all. I'm a poor boy :-) , so I'm allowed to ipl Linux only on a LPAR'ed G3 box with only a 3172 as network device (neither OSA, nor CTC (dedicated to production)). Question 1. Suse and Turbolinux distributions are supported only on G5 or G6 machines (unlike intel flavours, which should work also with ancient 386!). Does Red Hat for s390 will have the same limitations? Question 2. lcs.o (the network driver for "lan channel stations" like 3172) is still distributed as OCO (Object Code Only) also under SRPMS directory. Is it permitted by GPL license? (the true question is: there will be some way to be sure the instructions of lcs.o are supported by pre G4 cpu?) BTW: I found a 2.2.15 kernel hacked for pre G3 machines. I tried to IPL it and it worked fine (unlike Marist and SUSE, which hang at dasd initialization) until the step of network setup. Thanks in advance. Giorgio
