If any of you are trying to play Enemy Territory on an ATI card in Linux and it hangs up, try launching et with this command line:
et +set r_ext_compiled_vertex_array 0
Worked perfectly for me after that. If you are uing Gentoo,...
If you are using DHCP.
Go into /etc/conf.d and edit "net". Make sure you have this line uncommented:
iface_eth0="dhcp"
That make the interface eth0 use dhcp. Next, after modprobing 8139too, execute this...
Could it be a moderated wiki? Too many people updating it could lead to a convoluted mess, but if you had someone who could approve changes, that might help keep it on target.
Actually, yeah. You could pass root=/dev/sda1 to the kernel, but it would be SSSSLLLLLLLOOOOOOWWWW (1.1 speed, unless you can get USB 2.0 working). Regardless, you have to have something installed on the harddrive, so why not go all...
If I were you, Karate, I would check out beakmyn's suggestion. Get the v3 if at all possible.
BTW, beakmyn, did you get that Orinoco card and get it working?
I had that same wireless card and never got it to work. In the version 4 they changed chipsets. I ended ip trading it for an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card.
You have to have a computer that sees a USB device as bootable. My laptop doesn't. I have a USB 2.0 enclosure with my old laptop harddrive in it, and it works fine in Linux, abeit in 1.1 speeds, as a secondary storage device in /mnt. ...
