Initial Boot 

The system successfully booted from the installation medium.

 Network Interface Card: 3Com 905c, Ethernet

In order to get the 3Com 905c network interface controller working, the following actions should be taken:   1. Download 3c59x.c from ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/ 2. gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c 3c59x.c 3. cp 3c59x.o /lib/modules/2.2.10/net 4. yast 5. System Administration -- Network Configuration -- DHCP Client -- YES Also, choosing the default installation profile did not install the DHCP client utility, dhclient. We had to explicitly install dhclient using yast. To run yast to install the dhcp client, start an xterm or be in a root console and type the command "yast." Select the network packages after choosing to update configuration. Navigate to the dhcpd client and elect to install. Quit yast and the system will be updated.

 Disk Controller: IDE

The controller allowed effective communication with peripheral hardware.

 Engineer's Comments 

To enable support for the Soundblaster Live sound card, perform the following steps: 1. Download the latest driver source code snapshot from http://opensource.creative.com/snapshot.html 2. After extracting the archive file containing the source code, compile and install the driver according to the included README file. In our original certification, a proprietary driver was required. The Open Source version of this driver was released after the certification of this system was completed. Therefore, the referenced driver or the above procedure have not been tested.

 System Partitioning 

The fdisk successfully created the system partition.

 System Installation 

The kernel was successfully copied to the hard disk and made bootable; all essential packages were installed. Installation was user-friendly and very little interaction was required.

 Video Adapter: Diamond Viper 770

In order to get the Diamond Viper 770 adapter working, the following actions should be taken: 1. Obtain the file RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386.tar.gz, which can be downloaded from: ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/riva-tnt-tnt2-vanta/linux 2. Run the following commands to extract the archive and place the X server in the proper location: tar xzvf RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386.tar.gz cd X-GLX-glibc-i386 cp XF86_SVGA /usr/X11R6/bin XF86Setup 3. Choose Detailed Setup --> SVGA, leave all other fields at probed on the "Card" tab 4. Choose Multi-frequency that can do 1280 x 1024 @ 76 Hz on the "Monitor" tab 5. Choose 1024 x 768 x 32bpp on the "Modeselection" tab, click "Done," and click "Save configuration and Exit." Also, the X server launched in 16 and 32 bit color depths. The X server would not launch in 24 bit color depth, reporting "24bpp not supported by this chipset."