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...e had no problems at all. Except that I'd like to add a second ethernet port, and am not sure where one can find a card that will fit this machine. As far as I can see, it requires a half-height PCIe card, which seems to be rather a rare animal. (There doesn't seem to be a standard for the backplate.) So I'm wondering if anyone has tried this? Incidentally, is there a forum anywhere for users of the MicroServer under Linux? (The machine is unbelievably cheap at the moment, due to a bizarre cashback offer from HP.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-23360...

...minal to work with my new system. I had a serial terminal connected to my old system that worked great and copied /boot.config, /boot/loader.conf and /etc/ttys settings over from it. The new system has a Gigabyte GA970A-UD3 board with just a serial header on the board. I bought a serial connector backplate in an electronics store and connected it to the board. Could the pinout be different or something? > cat /boot.config -D -S19200 > cat /boot/loader.conf boot_multicons="YES" boot_serial="YES" comconsole_speed="19200" console="comconsole,vidconsole"...

The HP DL380 G5 (like many rack servers) has no AMP Mate-n-Lok connector available to attach to a card that needs more power than the PCI bus can provide, like the TDM400P when FXS modules are used. HP has confirmed that there is no part they sell to give you such a connector, and Digium says their business edition folks got it to work, but only by doing nasty warranty-voiding things to the

I'm looking for some kind of appliance like box, maybe something like this:http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm on which I could deploy iptables based firewall/openvpn/DNS and other local network services in a wide area network. I would probably install on a flash device. I would prefer something that was relatively easy to install on, or at least has been used with CentOS before, where