On Monday 15 January 2001 08:20, you wrote:
> Dear Experts,
> I'm currently using Redhat 7.0 on one of my computers because I have the
> Promise Fasttrak 66 RAID controller installed and I don't have a driver for
> Mandrake. I like using Redhat, but I would like to be able to install
> Mandrake on this computer so that my computers will be using the same
> versions of Linux. The README that came with the drivers that I loaded for
> Linux said that I could use these modules with any version as long as I
> compiled that kernel against those modules; what does that mean? I've
> recompiled kernels in the past, but what does it mean to compile the kernel
> AGAINST a certain module? Anyone feel like giving detailed directions?
>
> Thanks in advance, Mike
>
Are they binary-only drivers? If you have source you need to recompile the
kernel with the source included in the source tree, and include it in the
config, probably with a "Yes" not a "module."
Civileme
