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February 23, 2006

We Have Connection.

Overlord is finally on the network.
It took a bit of adjustments to get the driver installed for the Marvel Yukon Gigabit ethenet adapter. It's not part of the mainstream kernel so you have to search out the driver. Not a big issue except that compiling the kernel is a chore (and a half). Since everything is enabled it takes quite a bit of time to compile.

After a number of tweaks in the kernel (and failed booting attempts at a broken kernel) I have the machine running at a good clip.

Seems that even though it's a 478 pin (micro FCPGA) P4 based processor the kernel needs to be optimized for a pentium M and not a P4/Celeron P4/Pentium 4M. Once that was done along with removal of unneeded drivers the kernel compiled in 15 minutes. Of course it's nothing like the 4 processor power of the Xeons, still I have a sense of accomplishment on how it's performing.

it also took a few tweaks in the OCZ Ram Timing. When you get to the higher density you loose CAS speed. The speed of this ram was set at 4-4-4-12, yet it's rated at 3-3-3-8. Once that was adjusted (along with the kernel) everything took shape and it felt as powerful as the other systems I own. I bet it would shine if I overclocked it a bit or used CAS2 ram. Too bad they do not make CAS2 in 1GB DDR 240's.

Posted by Me on February 23, 2006 09:00 PM

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