HP Vectra VLi8 (intel 440bx)

[Mike Jackson]

Hi,
  I just bought 5 old vectra vli8 500 Mhz P3 boxes to build a cluster with for learning purposes. I 
obviously don't want to be dragging out my spare monitor every time I want to change something in 
the BIOS.

As far as I can tell, they have the Intel 440bx motherboard. I am unclear as to whether this 
board is supported or not.

The status page says:

This is a template for generic 440bx boards, see the smartcore-p3

digitallogic/smartcore-p3 			stable 	Ron Minnich 	[e-mail] 	16/12/2002 	Now works as of 
current CVS
digitallogic/smartcore-p5 			stable 	Ron Minnich 	[e-mail] 	01/06/2002

I have no idea if my Intel 440bx boards are "digitallogic/smartcore".

Please advise if I can use LinuxBIOS or not. Also, please advise if you know how I can change the 
BIOS settings remotely using open-source tools. The cluster nodes are running freebsd 5.3.

Thanks,
Mike