Intel VPRO

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 11/12/06, Chis (Ian Chisholm) <chis at pet.hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> For interest's sake, is anyone else out there banging their head against
> the problem of getting ANY version of Linux, let alone Redhat or Fedora
> to install on a machine with the VPRO chipset on the motherboard?
>
> We have over 100 HP 7700's coming in with this chipset and nothing
> (Suse, Fedora 4, 5, 6, RHEL 4, Gentoo, Mepis, Knoppix) wants anything to
> do with it.
>
> Anyone working on this?
>
> Ian.
>
> UNIX and Network Security Manager
> Institute of Petroleum Engineering
> Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

As far as I can see, the specs for the 7700 don't list linux as a
supported operating system.  I know that doesn't necessarily mean it
won't work.  Still, did you mention linux when you ordered them?

Kind regards,

Herta