Again, did you ever build a 2.4.17 kernel from straight source (not from SRPM)? And if you want 2.4.13 (or any other kernel for that matter), it's available at ftp.kernel.org.
Cheers, -Charlie Praedor Tempus said: > 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 -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE
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