I have wondered but then dismissed this. My new, fresh reinstall of 8.1 (6th or 7th time in 3 days) properly recognizes and uses my 3c589 card...after I dumped the default dhcpcd install and replaced it with dhcp-common/dhcp-client rpms, that is. The big stopper now is STILL sound. I had perfectly working sound before this whole mess (started and caused repeatedly with attempts to use or build ANY form of 2.4.17 kernel) when I had a nice, self-built 2.4.13 kernel. I WANT IT BACK!!
Know where I can find the kernel-source for the Mandrake 2.4.13 kernel? It worked beautifully...I had simply hoped (wrongly it turns out) that 2.4.17 would be improved even more. Boy was I wrong on that. That is the most miserably broken kernel I've ever had the displeasure to mess with. Even if you install the precompiled binary it doesn't work...and it even produces unknown symbol messages for two of its own modules (minix.o and sysv.o)! To add insult to injury, it doesn't even recognize that it has its own pcmcia modules like i82365 and ds. They are CLEARLY extant right where they are supposed to be but the kernel complains that they do not exist when trying to start pcmcia! Gee-aaw! Building it myself in various ways didn't fix the minix.o and sysv.o symbol problem and it certainly didn't do jack for pcmcia or sound. The whole reason I have been wanting to get past the 2.4.8-26mdk 8.1 kernel is because it doesn't work with my soundcard...a simple, old, never-changing ess solo1. This worked with with all the 2.2.x kernels and with 2.4.13, just not with 2.4.8 or 2.4.17. I'm getting real irate about the whole damn thing after dicking with this and that, trashing my system totally (the 2.4.17 kernels in any form installed on my system broke it so badly that it was easier to reinstall from scratch than to try to untangle the mess. praedor On Thursday 24 January 2002 14:27, you wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:17:12 -0800 (PST) > > Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > OK, when I got a usable 8.1 system with > > kernel-2.4.8-26mdk running, I decided to try one more > > time with kerne-2.4.17.8. This time, instead of doing > > a source build I just installed the binary and > > rebooted. It booted up and...jus as with my own build > > attempts, pcmcia failed miserablely and sound was > > dead. > > [little snip] > > Praedor, > > I don't mean to pour salt into an open wound, but have you considered that > there just might be hardware issues here and that it's not the software? > PCMCIA is some of the most notoriously miserable technology when it doesn't > work right. Even on a windows machine that will normally any old POS that > you throw at it. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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