Lemon for sale

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I'm am definitely interested.  Are you looking for any specific niccards?
I use realtech 10 base t nics which work beautifully.  Hopeully I'm the
first to write so pleeeeeeaaase let me know.

Raul A. Gallegos
Email: raul at asmodean.net	icq#: 5283055
msn: ragallegos at hotmail.com	aim: raulagallegos


On Tue, 1 May 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> LEMON FOR SALE
>
> Actually I hope to trade a lemon for a pair of NIC cards supported by the
> 2.2.18 kernel. If you are interested, I would ask you to pay the cost of
> shipping my lemon to you, and your NIC cards to me. But beware! If you are
> not comfortable with hardware troubleshooting, delete this announcement
> immediately and do not even think of it!!!
>
> Description of my Lemon:
>
> Mini tower cabinet; motherboard with AMD 5x86 133 MHz processor; 16 megs
> of memory; 850 MB hard disk; 3.5" floppy; IDE/ATAPI 25X CDROM drive; one
> parallel and two serial ports; PCI bus with support for five ISA expansion
> cards. The five slots are filled as follows: Doubletalk PC internal speech
> synthesizer; Jaton 33.6 internal modem; AWE/64 sound card; Jaton Network
> Interface Card; SVGA video card. Keyboard, speakers, and cables are not
> included.
>
> This system is a great bargain for the cannibals on the list. However,
> something does not work right on this system, and I am unable to figure
> out what. It has a Slackware 7.1 Linux installation with kernel 2.2.16 and
> Speakup 0.9 which boots up okay (most of the time) and talks normally (for
> a little while) but within a minute or two of normal operation, it quits.
> It dies. It goes silent, stops responding, and the only course of action
> available is to do a hard reset or turn off the power, or I suppose you
> could also throw the son of a bitch out the window! When that happens and
> you attempt to restart the system, it will not reboot right away. You have
> to go get a cup of coffee or something else and then try again some time
> later.
>
> The oldest components in this system are the motherboard, hard disk, and
> video card, which date from 1997. The expansion cards are all newer.
>
> Anyone wishing to inherit this headache (I have a "no
> return" policy) please contact me off the list to make arrangements.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
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>
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