Special note. I forgot to mention that I use Bastille for my firewall. It flexed to my
kernel change. I have to make some changes to make an opening for dialpad.com but
other than that, it is still there.
Cheers
-- Al
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Sorry to hear the bad news with your compile. Mine was flawless. Slow and
> steady but flawless, nonetheless. I researched and read while going through
> my compile. If you could give me an idea of your hardware specs I can
> probably provide some insight, bro. I don't use PMfirewall but if I did, I
> would expect it to break. The price to pay for working with static binaries
> better known as tarballs. That is what RPMs so beautiful, they are dynamic
> thus flex and readjust mostly to changes as greatly as this.
>
> Cheers
> -- Al
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Had the same problem with the boot up errors about the vfat and I had
> > compiled it in. I can still access my windows partition tho.
> >
> > I had to recompile so as to add the sound support as modules instead of
> > compiled in so sndconfig would work.
> >
> > What's up with the power management? The help says even if you don't
> choose
> > it, it's installed anyway? Now I'm back to the blank screen after a half
> > hour instead of my screensaver (which I prefer!).
> >
> > How do I get my neato graphical boot up? I miss the happy (well sometimes
> > sad) penguin! (aurora still checked in startup under drakconf).
> >
> > Pmfirewall broke. Need I say more? I didn't use the new ipchains
> > replacement (whatever it was called) during compile. Should I have?
> >
> > No midi supported. I must have missed something when choosing sound
> modules
> > (though I check everything remotely similiar to my current drivers and
> > modules).
> >
> > What's the cure for the supermount? I thought I had read one back before I
> > tried the new kernel out and now I can't find it. I did choose auto mount
> in
> > the compile, but I really think that had more to do with nfs.
> >
> > Enough for now.
> >
> > TIA,
> > -s
> >
> >
> > On Friday 12 January 2001 05:57 pm, you wrote:
> > > Well, part of my problems is that the SCSI card drivers and sound card
> > > drivers are not part of the standard linux-mandrake distribution, so I had
> > > to download drivers to work with Mandrake 7.2 out of the box. When I
> tried
> > > to use the source or binaries from the 2.2.17 based drivers, they didn't
> > > work under 2.4, so at the least I need to recompile them or download new
> > > sources.
> > >
> > > One thing that I did notice, was that some of the options that I expected
> > > to be turned "on" by default were turned "off" this time (The last kernel
> I
> > > compiled was 2.2.16). Things like the VFAT support. make sure you go
> > > through whatever configuration tool you use carefully for differences.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Kevin
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Michael, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:20 AM
> > > Subject: RE: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
> > >
> > > > Not to bash the 2.4 upgrade, but it didn't sound like it went all that
> > >
> > > well
> > >
> > > > for you. I don't think a newbie could have done what you have done,
> that
> > > > is, without some serious help. Hopefully the upgrades will get better
> > >
> > > over
> > >
> > > > time.
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Kevin Tambascio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:37 AM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Have any of your tried the 2.4 kernel yet? I tried to install and
> > > > compile it last night, and had some success. I was able to reboot into
> > > > the new kernel, but I had some error messages about loading FAT
> > > > partitions, turned out I hadn't built in the VFAT into the kernel or
> > > > module. I couldn't get
> > >
> > > my
> > >
> > > > USB scanner (EPSON Perfection 610) working right away, I have to figure
> > >
> > > out
> > >
> > > > what is happening. I was able to get my scanner working sometimes with
> > > > 2.2.17. My SCSI card needs a new driver (Tekram 315), and I need to d/l
> > > > a 2.4 based Vortex 1 driver. My Ethernet card was not immediately
> > > > working.
> > >
> > > I
> > >
> > > > had to reselect in DrakConf that I needed the Tulip driver. After that,
> > >
> > > an
> > >
> > > > insmod tulip, ifup eth was all I needed to get it working. Other than
> > >
> > > those
> > >
> > > > things, KDE came up OK, and nothing else unusual was apparent.
> > > >
> > > > Would any other users care to share their experience so far?
> > > >
> > > > -Kevin
> >
> >
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