[Elecraft] Linux - Summary

[Bob Nielsen]

Rich,

You can find links to a large assortment of Linux ham programs
(typically source code tarballs) at

http://radio.linux.org.au

The two distributions which have the most packaged ham applications are
Debian and SuSe.  The current Debian Project Leader is KB0G.

73, 
Bob N7XY

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:44:16PM -0600, Rich Lentz wrote:
> Thought that you would want to know the results.
> 
> Red Hat - 8
> Mandrake - 5
> SuSe -   1
> Smothwall - 1
> 
> Decided on Red Hat.  If you want to down load - three important criteria
> 1) be on a high speed connection  - Cable.  2) Try a college mirror on
> Saturday night/Sunday morning - They were 20 time faster than Red Hats
> download (they must have a speed limit to minimize downloads).  3) do the
> checksum on the image.
> 
> Installed in under twenty minutes.  BUT my pci stuff wasn't recognized.
> After finding out that my motherboard doesn't talk to Linux found out the
> fix is "linux pci=bios,biosirq" <ENTER> at the first prompt "boot:" upon
> initial loading AND then to add "pci=bios,biosirq" after "root=LABEL=/"
> i.e., " ...   root=LABEL=/ pci=bios,biosirq"  in the grub.conf file (found
> in /boot/grub/ when you log on as administrator (username = root, password =
> whatever you assigned for administrator)).
> 
> After that fix (which needed another reload), the system works great I mean
> GREAT.  Everything I need (except for ham radio programs).  Works as good
> (better than) Win-2000. Until you are experienced I would recommend playing
> on a spare hard drive before trying to make a dual boot system.
> 
> Rich
> KE0X 
>