On Sunday 05 October 2003 11:59, momesana wrote: > Hi, all! > This might not be the apropriate place to ask questions related to > non-gentoo-kernels, even more as the questions are about a testing kernel > (2.6.0-test6). Yet, I hope that someone will be kind enough to answer my > questions. > > After having heard so much positive stuff about the upcoming 2.6 Linux > Kernel I decided to give it a try but soon I would run into some wierd > problems that I havent been able to solve even after many hours of trying. > > The first one is that I cannot connect to my adsl-provider (german telekom) > any longer, despite of all necessary modules being there and loaded (at > least I think so). the ppp_generic, ppp_async, slhc, sis900 (my ethernet > driver) are all available and roaring pinguin also compiles well and does > not complain about lacking drivers ... but inspite of this I cannot connect > to my ISP.
I'm having the same problem with a rtl8139. Nothing reports errors and packets go out, but the kernel won't seem to read from the interface correctly. Can't help with a solution tho... > There is another big problem. Under X I cannot start any terminal emulation > software such as Xterm, Eterm or Konsole unless I am logged in as root. > Xterm doesnt start at all, Eterm starts and exits immediately and konsole > spits out following message before it exits: "unable to open a suitable > terminal device". This problem really p..... me off since I have to leave X > and switch to the virtual consoles everytime I want to type in a command > and that is annoying. I guess there is something wrong with the pseudo > terminals. Maybe the permissions are not set correctly. But if that was the > case, why does it work under the gentoo-2.4.20-r5 kernel??? Is something > wrong with devfs??? Re-emerge the kernel and then read what it says at the end... Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
