On Sunday 09 January 2005 08:15 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: |odem. | | Are 2.6.x kernels different in this then the 2.4.x kernels? I have used | the same driver for 4 different kernels on my laptop. The RPM with the | drivers added a directory off the modules directory for the version of | the kernel it was packaged for, and all I have done if recreate the | directory for the newer kernels, and create a links for the files in the | directory. (hard link, so I can delete the origional directory when I | clean out the old kernel's modules.) If this is going to be a problem, | then I will have to think some more about upgrading it to 10.1. | | Mikkel
Debian is different--there is no pre-packaged ltmodem*.deb file for the 2.6.7 kernel (mine). And, with the various flavors of the 2.4 kernel, I've always used the binary installs because I can never find a package for my particular kernel (at least, one that works!). So, that means re-compiling the driver every time I change. And now, it appears that even that is messed up. I haven't had any problems with the modem with Mandrake, or SuSe for that matter--but the SuSe 2.6 kernel really makes a tediously slow system, for some reason. The Debian 2.6 kernel is fast--faster that Mandrake. I'm sure of this, because the development machine I'm running it on is a K6-233 with 256 megs, and KDE isn't a problem. SuSe really sucked on that one--Mandrake wasn't very good with KDE either, but Xfce made it pleasant to use. Anyway, I have several "real" machines here--I just use that one to test stuff.
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