[MVLUG] death of a router....

[Don McCoy]

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> I'm afraid the Compaq Premio that we used as a router for the install
> fest has given up the ghost.  Remember it had some boot-time kernel
> panics that we attributed to not having a keyboard hooked up?  Well,
> it now consistently panics on boot,   I burned a copy of RIP to try to
> look at it -- and it kernel panics trying to boot that.
>
> A moment of silence, all...  Don, did you have another one available?
> I've actually had several students come in this semester wanting help
> installing Linux, so it had been getting some use!
>   

I forgot to reply to this...

The other one's power supply died, so I gutted it and kept all the
useful parts.  In general, I should be able to replace just about
anything on that unit, so perhaps I should take a look at it.  If it is
the hard-drive, then i'll just replace it and install vanilla debian on
it.  do you have whatever iptables configuration information you'll need
saved from the old one?

OR... did you upgrade your laptop with a PCMCIA-based ethernet card and
alleviate the need for this machine altogether?

Don