Hi.

I've been running 1.6K on a 1.2GHz Thunderbird for quite some time, and the
system has been rock solid, even with my Gigabit card, until the fan on the
Northbridge chip quit and the chip seems to have suffered some collateral
damage.  That is, even though I've got the fan running again, I get timeout
errors on wm0 if the data rate goes much above 50KBps.

So I trucked on down to the local Fry's, to find that Socket A motherboards
are a dying breed, and came home instead with an AMD 3200+/motherboard combo.

What I would like to know is, how difficult is the transition to the new CPU
going to be?  Can I just plug in the new board/CPU and run with what I have?
If not, would an AMD64 kernel suffice, until I got everything rebuilt?  And
will it run 1.6K, or am I going to have to give up my stable system?  (I've
seen questions about how well the current wm0 code runs...)

Thanks,
Steve