Forgive me if this is a bit off-topic, but since I intend to run NetBSD on 
it, and it's clearly designed for the embedded market, I venture the 
question. 

I recently grabbed an "appliance" for dirt cheap as it was 1U rack-mount 
format, had 3 FE ports and a Redhat Linux sticker on the front.  How could I 
go wrong?  I'm now trying to identify what I have. 

Opening the case, it's an odd Intel i440BX motherboard, socket 370, one 
memory slot, 3 Intel 10/100 ethernet controllers on board, 2 PMC sites, one 
IDE connector and one compact flash site, one USB and 2 serial ports. 

Silk screen says "COGNAC REV. A1 <cr> MB06013-1". 

Connecting to the right serial port and puzzling out it expects 57.6k, I 
get: 

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Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally
Copyright (C) 1984-2001, Award Software, Inc. 

ALCATEL COGNAC, 07/25/01 REV.A3 

Main Processor : Intel Pentium III 600E MHz(100x6.0)
Memory Testing :   65536K OK 

                            System Configurations
+=========================================================================== 
===+
| CPU Type          : Intel Pentium III   Base Memory       :    640K        
|
| CPU ID/ucode ID   : 0681/11             Extended Memory   :  64512K        
|
| CPU Clock         : 600E MHz            Cache Memory      :    256K        
|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 ---|
| Diskette Drive A  : 1.44M, 3.5 in.      Display Type      : MONO           
|
| Diskette Drive B  : None                Serial Port(s)    : 3F8 2F8        
|
| Pri. Master Disk  : None                Parallel Port(s)  : None           
|
| Pri. Slave  Disk  : None                SDRAM at Row(s)   : 0              
|
| Sec. Master Disk  : None                                                   
|
| Sec. Slave  Disk  : None                                                   
|
+=========================================================================== 
===+ 

PCI device listing ...
Bus No. Device No. Func No. Vendor/Device Class Device Class               
IRQ
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 ----
   0        7         1     8086   7111   0101  IDE Cntrlr                  
14
   0        7         2     8086   7112   0C03  Serial Bus Cntrlr           
10
   0       12         0     8086   1209   0200  Network Cntrlr              
12
   0       14         0     8086   1209   0200  Network Cntrlr              
10
   0       16         0     8086   1209   0200  Network Cntrlr              
11 


Building DMI Pool ............................ Success
Verifying DMI Pool Data ............ Update Success
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER 

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It doesn't seem to accept input from the terminal, and it doesn't seem to 
care about USB keyboards, so I can't break into the BIOS. 

Google hasn't given me a hint other than the fact that someone made a vastly 
more popular generic Intel motherboard referred to as a COGNAC and this 
ain't it. 

Anyone have a bit of doco for this? 

Thanks, 

Ken