rasteri's Journal: What's Pissing me off : My server

I bought a Compaq Deskpro computer the other day, with the intention of using it as a gateway/web server. It's a PII-350, 64Mb of RAM, 6Gb hard disk, onboard fast ethernet, etc... and I got it for £40 from the local once-a-month computer fair. I thought (and still think) it was quite a good deal, but it's been a total pain in the ass.

For one thing, it doesn't accept standard-sized CD drives, so I had to keep the CD drive outside the case while I was installing linux on it.

It also keeps throwing kernel panics all over the place. I think it's related to the cheapo ethernet card I stuck in it, but I can't really be sure.

I stayed at my parent's house for the weekend, and left my computer to download a lot of things off edonkey. When I came back I discovered the goddamn thing had switched into standby mode. When I resumed it all I got on the screen was "Kernel Panic:SKPUT:OVER" (and then a load of numbers, probably related to System.map). I rebooted the box, and went to bed. When I got up in the morning exactly the same thing had happened.

I'm not quite sure whether the panic was caused by the system switching into Standby mode automatically or vice versa, but I've disabled standby mode just in case. If that doesn't do any good, then I'll replace the NIC with another one but I don't have any spare 100Mbit ones lying around, and I really want one for the network side of the firewall.