On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, el mono wrote:
>After reading the documentation included in the 2.2.1 kernel release the
>following questions came to my mind:
>
>1- Wich software must be recompiled against 2.2 kernel headers in order to
>get complete functionality (Changes)
As far as I know none for the normal user
>
>2- How can i update my /dev files, some minor and major nodes have been
>changed. I know that i can use the devices.txt file but i will have to use
>mknod and there are too many devices. Is there a script or some other
>application to do this?
Yes there is. It is /dev/MAKEDEV and it comes with a man page. I used it to
create my joystick devices
>
>3- Do I still have to start kerneld at startup?. After reading kmod.txt
>i think that
>kerneld is obsolete cause the kernel will not call it anymore so load it
>will be a loss of memory but the Changes file in the modules section says:
>
> As of 2.1.90-pre1, kerneld has been replaced by a kernel thread,
>kmod. See Documentation/kmod.txt for more information. The main
>user-level change this requires is modification to your init scripts to
>check for the absence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe before starting
>kerneld.
>
>So should I start kerneld or not???
No!!!
>
>4- Every time I start a ppp session modprobe says:
>
>Feb 21 01:28:09 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
>Feb 21 01:28:09 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26
>Feb 21 01:28:10 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
Put this lines in your /etc/conf.modules:
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp # ppp compression
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
>
>But i have searched all over the kernel documentation and configuration
>and i can't see anything about this modules all i have seen is the line:
>
>--- CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules.
>
>After the ppp-support option. How can i get this modules???
Build them with your new kernel.
>
>I hope anybody can help me with this.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>--
>Estamos hablando...
>Jaime Alberto Silva Colorado
>Pereira - Colombia
>
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