Updates on my progress at getting fafnir converted to ubuntu:
Network
Attempting to get networking going again now that Fafnir has been configured with Ubuntu linux.
Faulty changeover cable causes some problems, but the major problem is that Ubuntu doesn’t have a kernel module for the Broadcom ethernet card! The “eth0” that was displayed was actually ethernet over IEEE1394, causing me no end of confusion.
“lspci” identifies:
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
Installed bcm5700-source, now need to get all the requisite parts for building the module!
Hyperthreading
Re-enabled the BIOS hyperthreading setting
X11
After restarting the machine for the first time since the major Ubuntu X updates, the maximum resolution has dropped to 1024x768.
previously at http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~ajft/systems/fafnir/20050524fafnir