If memory serves me (which is very rarely) a 486dlc chip was made by IBM and
it was well known during the early 90's (when I got into PC repair) that
both the Cyrix and IBM clone 486's where not quiet as "cloned" as IBM/Cyrix
wanted you to believe (same thing as today with the AMD vs. Intel war...but
it was a IBM vs. Cyrix vs. AMD vs. Intel war at the time)
I think Charles is using the DachStein-Small kernel for the floppy image and
in which case its compiled for 486 without FPU compiled into the kernel
(which I think a 486DLC had no FPU).
If you want to compile a kernel that might work vist Charles's site
(http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/cstein/files/kernels/Dachstein-small/)
and give adding FPU to the kernel a shot or even droping the kernel into 386
w/FPU might help.
Or just upgrade to a low end pentium...since a 486 WILL lag after a 1mbit of
DSL traffic ( I upgraded at home from a AMD586-133 to a Intel P200MMX
(overkill but it was just collecting dust) and it shocked me how quicker my
downloads became)

-Kenneth Hadley


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Richard Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "leaf"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein 1.0.2 with PPPoE


> Must be a newer kernel for Dachstein.  The Eigerstein2 beta with PPPoE
> from Ken ran great on the 486dlc.
>
> Richard Doyle wrote:
>
> >The 486 dlc was an odd beast without an fpu. You need a kernel
> >with built-in 387 emulation.
> >
> >-Richard
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> >>Behalf Of Robert
> >>Chambers
> >>Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:22 PM
> >>To: leaf
> >>Subject: [Leaf-user] Dachstein 1.0.2 with PPPoE
> >>
> >>
> >>Is there a minimum cpu requirement for Dachstein?
> >>Since I was using a
> >>Windows machine to extract the file and create the
> >>floppy disk, I booted
> >>the floppy in the Windows machine which is a PII 400
> >>mhz and configured
> >>Dachstein for my connection.  When I booted my LRP
> >>machine with the
> >>Dachstein disk it stopped at "loading Linux".  My Lrp
> >>machine is a 486
> >>DLC - 40.
> >>
> >> I know I know I need to upgrade my LRP at least to a
> >>Pentium.  Ken
> >>Hadley and I have talked about the PPPoE download
> >>speed being limited by
> >>the speed of the cpu. :-[
> >>Robert Chambers
> >>
> >>
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