E150 support

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Tue Feb 21 12:31:31 PST 2006


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:13:10PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:12:48PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > Has anyone an overview about what might be required to support
> > an E150?
> > 
> 
> AFAICT they use the same motherboard as Ultra 1 so they should
> work just fine with 6.1-BETA2 modulo the on-board floppy and
> printer port controllers as well as framebuffer cards. Releases
> prior to 6.1-BETA2 don't support the on-board Ethernet and the
> 6.0-RELEASE and prior loader can't boot from devices attached
> to the on-board SCSI controller though.

I've heared that with the Ultra1 motherboard as well, but wasn't
shure since only the Ultra1e is listed as supported.
So there is even hope for the onboard SCSI and Ethernet.
Not that they are very importent.
Once I have my fingers on real hardware I will keep you informed.

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