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Need help getting SETI networked

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CurtOien

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This machine is being set up to sit in the corner and run SETI.
I was given a Packard Bell Multimedia D135 with an evergreen 200 processor and 32MB of ram.

I have no owners manual and have not been able to find anything for this motherboard on the internet yet.
I think it may be an INTEL Advanced/HL (Hillary) (NSC 306) but I'm not sure.
Packard Bells web site stinks.

After installing Win 98 I tried to install a Linksys Etherfast 10/100 LAN Card with no luck.
The Linksys says a 32 bit PCI slot is required.
Is their such a thing as 16 bit PCI slots?
The PCI and ISA slots are on a card that is pluged into what looks like an ISA slot.

If the networking is going to be a no go, can I sneakernet SETI with this?
I have a CDR/CDRW and floppy in machines connected to the internet.
This Packard Bell has an older 6X CD ROM and a floppy only.
I have a newer CD ROM that I can stick in if needed.

Thanks
 
I don't have one at this time but I'm sure I could get one cheap.
If I got one, would it slow my whole network down?
I have a 10/100 hub and 10/100 cards in my other two computers.
 
Yo Shux, won't the whole hub run at 10 Mbps then? AFAIK most hubs aren't auto-sensing by port, that's switches. 🙂
 


<< Yo Shux, won't the whole hub run at 10 Mbps then? AFAIK most hubs aren't auto-sensing by port, that's switches. 🙂 >>

That's what I thought 😕, but I'm no networking pro 😱.
 
I would sneakernet with a floppy. That machine won't do WUs very quickly so stocking it with say 8 (two floppies) will keep it crunching for quite a while. KISS. I live by it.😎
 
Can anyone point me to instructions on sneakernetting SETI with a floppy?
I know there is a problem with starting a WU on one machine and finishing it on another.
 


<< Can anyone point me to instructions on sneakernetting SETI with a floppy?
I know there is a problem with starting a WU on one machine and finishing it on another. >>



I have a couple pc's crunching that don't have a net connection, I created two batch files, one that runs the client and another that calls out, then created a dir that has subdirs labeled 1-50..here's part of the one that runs the crunching:
copy c:\work_seti\user_info.sah c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\1
copy c:\work_seti\seti.exe c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\1
cd c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\1
seti.exe -stop_after_process -cpu 0
del seti.exe

copy c:\work_seti\user_info.sah c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\2
copy c:\work_seti\seti.exe c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\2
cd c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\2
seti.exe -stop_after_process -cpu 0
del seti.exe

And one that calls out..

copy c:\work_seti\user_info.sah c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\1
copy c:\work_seti\seti.exe c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\1
cd c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\1
seti.exe -stop_after_xfer -cpu 0
del seti.exe

copy c:\work_seti\user_info.sah c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\2
copy c:\work_seti\seti.exe c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\2
cd c:\work_seti\1\cmd-0\2
seti.exe -stop_after_xfer -cpu 0
del seti.exe

I put the w/u's on via cd and can dump the w/u's to a floppys (use Winzip if necessary) and then call out, dump them back on cd, rinse and repeat . Yes, rather than manually creating each part of the batch file with the dir name I could use a for loop but I was lazy when I made it. You get the point.
 
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