Linux Netstation HOWTO

7. Other Useful Documentation

7.1 The IBM Website

The IBM Website lots of documentation on the NC, most of it can be found in PDF format.

The latest updates can be found at http://www.as4000.ibm.com/networkstation/rs6000/ including

• IBM Network Station Runtime Environment for RS/6000 Users's Guide
• IBM Network Station Runtime Environment for RS/6000 System Administrator's Guide
• IBM Network Station Runtime Environment for RS/6000 System Navio NC Navigator Browser Guide

  Or from http://www.ibm.com/nc/pubs/

• IBM Network Station Setup and Use

7.2 Mailing Lists

There is a mailing list available called The NetVista thin Client Linux Forum it can be found on http://techconnect.ease.lsoft.com/archives/netvista_thin_client_forum/network.htm , the archives can also be found there.

7.3 Linux on the PPC40X

There are a lot of new resources online about Linux on the PPC40X. Here is a small list of them. http://www.borg.umn.edu/~grant/Linux/ it seems like some of the Netstations contain a 403GC[X] on this page you can find a Linux kernel for that PPC. If anybody succeeds please contacte me ! http://www.mvista.com/products/405gp_status/main.html Montavista Software is doing a nice job in porting the Linux kernel to the IBM PowerPC 405GP based Walnut System:

More recently we established a Wiki to discuss the development of Linux on the Netstation, you can find it on http://howto.ipng.be/NetstationWiki/ The effort actually worked out and there is a totally new project on SourceForge where you can download the required software to boot Linux on an IBM NC 1000. http://sourceforge.net/projects/networkstation/