Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: It depends. Specially if like me, you have ReiserFS. i gave up reiserfs, i know it fast and saving hardisk spaces but i got too many error on it, maybe i failed on something i dont know (2.2.17+reiserfs-3.6.24-patch) I prefer Mandrake kernels because they're already patched to support Mandrake specific features. I've never seen any performance increase with custom compiled kernels either. i edit the Makefile and change the CFLAGS for P2 (-O9 -funroll-loops -ffast-math .etc). and also edit the extraversion a little, and only choose the modules that i really use. thats the reason why i compiled my kernel -- "To followers We feed you." -- Klesk, Quake III Arena.
SV: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
I have test to install the new kernel with the 2.4.5-5mdkrypto rpm, but I've got error: error: failed dependencies: kernel = 2.3 conflicts with kdeaddutils-2.0-3.mdk Any suggestions? /Nik -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 21 januari 2001 00:06 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel On Saturday 20 January 2001 01:04 pm, DJW wrote: As I installed Linux to learn it, I would like to try and install the new 2.4 kernel everyone is talking about. My question is, where do I get it. In other words, is there a special Mandrake 2.4 kernel I should compile and use, or will any 2.4 kernel do? I see there are several sources available to download from. Thanks in advance, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] It depends. Specially if like me, you have ReiserFS. I prefer Mandrake kernels because they're already patched to support Mandrake specific features. I've never seen any performance increase with custom compiled kernels either. Mandrake prebuilts are just as good, just as fast. Still I've tried many 2.4.0's from source and prebuilt, Mandrake and otherwise. They all boot fine and everything works ... except supermount. I've heard on the cooker list that 2.4.1-pre9 will work with a supermount-0.5.3-2.4.1-pre9.gz patch, and all 2.4.1-pre8 and higher support ReiserFS. Mandrake kernels have supported Rfs for a long time, vanilla source 2.4.0 kernels will if patched. I'd suggest you try a Mandrake prebuilt. It installs to it's own dir in /usr/src/, and completely sets itself up, lilo changes included, and doesn't interfere in any way with other kernel files. It will be an option when you reboot, your current default will be unchanged. Latest is kernel-2.4.0-5mdk.i586.rpm on any cooker mirror. Last one I tried is -4mdk, and it correctly set itself up in lilo.conf except for adding my ide-scsi append statement. So check lilo.conf before you reboot. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] 2.4 Kernel
Ok, my system is up and running just fine (M7.2), cd burner works, dsl works, and life is good. So I am going to once again throw my Grandfathers advice out the window (if it's not broken, don't fix it) :-) As I installed Linux to learn it, I would like to try and install the new 2.4 kernel everyone is talking about. My question is, where do I get it. In other words, is there a special Mandrake 2.4 kernel I should compile and use, or will any 2.4 kernel do? I see there are several sources available to download from. Thanks in advance, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
On Saturday 20 January 2001 01:04 pm, DJW wrote: As I installed Linux to learn it, I would like to try and install the new 2.4 kernel everyone is talking about. My question is, where do I get it. In other words, is there a special Mandrake 2.4 kernel I should compile and use, or will any 2.4 kernel do? I see there are several sources available to download from. Thanks in advance, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] It depends. Specially if like me, you have ReiserFS. I prefer Mandrake kernels because they're already patched to support Mandrake specific features. I've never seen any performance increase with custom compiled kernels either. Mandrake prebuilts are just as good, just as fast. Still I've tried many 2.4.0's from source and prebuilt, Mandrake and otherwise. They all boot fine and everything works ... except supermount. I've heard on the cooker list that 2.4.1-pre9 will work with a supermount-0.5.3-2.4.1-pre9.gz patch, and all 2.4.1-pre8 and higher support ReiserFS. Mandrake kernels have supported Rfs for a long time, vanilla source 2.4.0 kernels will if patched. I'd suggest you try a Mandrake prebuilt. It installs to it's own dir in /usr/src/, and completely sets itself up, lilo changes included, and doesn't interfere in any way with other kernel files. It will be an option when you reboot, your current default will be unchanged. Latest is kernel-2.4.0-5mdk.i586.rpm on any cooker mirror. Last one I tried is -4mdk, and it correctly set itself up in lilo.conf except for adding my ide-scsi append statement. So check lilo.conf before you reboot. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
Thanks, I'll give it a try. Don - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 3:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel On Saturday 20 January 2001 01:04 pm, DJW wrote: As I installed Linux to learn it, I would like to try and install the new 2.4 kernel everyone is talking about. My question is, where do I get it. In other words, is there a special Mandrake 2.4 kernel I should compile and use, or will any 2.4 kernel do? I see there are several sources available to download from. Thanks in advance, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] It depends. Specially if like me, you have ReiserFS. I prefer Mandrake kernels because they're already patched to support Mandrake specific features. I've never seen any performance increase with custom compiled kernels either. Mandrake prebuilts are just as good, just as fast. Still I've tried many 2.4.0's from source and prebuilt, Mandrake and otherwise. They all boot fine and everything works ... except supermount. I've heard on the cooker list that 2.4.1-pre9 will work with a supermount-0.5.3-2.4.1-pre9.gz patch, and all 2.4.1-pre8 and higher support ReiserFS. Mandrake kernels have supported Rfs for a long time, vanilla source 2.4.0 kernels will if patched. I'd suggest you try a Mandrake prebuilt. It installs to it's own dir in /usr/src/, and completely sets itself up, lilo changes included, and doesn't interfere in any way with other kernel files. It will be an option when you reboot, your current default will be unchanged. Latest is kernel-2.4.0-5mdk.i586.rpm on any cooker mirror. Last one I tried is -4mdk, and it correctly set itself up in lilo.conf except for adding my ide-scsi append statement. So check lilo.conf before you reboot. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
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 __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
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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re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 05:46:07 -0500, Altoine Barker said: 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. Altione, Are you able to give a shortish comparison between Bastille and other firewalling scripts? Send direct if you wish Cheers John -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
On Sunday 14 January 2001 07:42 pm, s 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. Vfat/dos support hasn't been a default in any of the 2.4's I've compiled, you have to select it during make (x)config. How do I get my neato graphical boot up? I miss the happy (well sometimes sad) penguin! (aurora still checked in startup under drakconf). lilo needs to have the 'vga=xxx' line added to the 2.4 section, then run lilo Pmfirewall broke. Need I say more? I didn't use the new ipchains replacement (whatever it was called) during compile. Should I have? It's called iptables. You can select support for 2.2.x/ipchains during make config. 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. Dunno, I've tried several 2.4's both ready made and compiled from source. If I manage to get supermount in the kernel, I get a kernel panic on boot. I was thinking it was a problem with ReiserFs compatibility (?) -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
Using 2.4.0 that was released on the 5th available from kernel.org. No test number or anything. Actually, all that trouble was on my 'test' machine. I installed 2.4.0 on my 'main' machine last night and all went fine. No errors on start up. PMfirewall still working (apparently had make a bad choice in xconfig with the other one). Sound and modem automagically configured (had to run sndconfig setserial on test machine). Don't know about the apm yet. Been on my machine every since. If I put vga=788 in lilo (as it was previously), my screen goes blank after the .booting kernel ok. But if I change it to vga=normal, its loads in the old fashioned text like manner with the green [ok]s. No biggie there. Can live with it. I must still mount floppies, mount and umount cdroms. Still no biggie really. *But my ide zip doesn't work now. When trying to mount I get an error about it not being a valid block device and unable to open /dev/zip. (Biggie here.)* It will eject tho. Still can't get nvidia drivers loaded. It complains about it being the wrong kernel now! (Previous problems with i815 mobo and agpgart support). Still have to wait some more I guess. Oh well, all in all I'm quite happy with the way it went. Maybe I'll do the little machine just for the fun of it. -s On Monday 15 January 2001 10:35 am, you 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
Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
On Monday 15 January 2001 11:44 am, you wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2001 07:42 pm, s 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. Vfat/dos support hasn't been a default in any of the 2.4's I've compiled, you have to select it during make (x)config. I did choose it. ? (Well, it went fine on my main computer. That was just a practice run on a test machine there.) How do I get my neato graphical boot up? I miss the happy (well sometimes sad) penguin! (aurora still checked in startup under drakconf). lilo needs to have the 'vga=xxx' line added to the 2.4 section, then run lilo If I have that, it won't boot. I have to put vga=normal. No biggie. (Maybe if I try a lower number? It was 788.) Pmfirewall broke. Need I say more? I didn't use the new ipchains replacement (whatever it was called) during compile. Should I have? It's called iptables. You can select support for 2.2.x/ipchains during make config. Yep, found that now. Thanks. It's working now. 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. Dunno, I've tried several 2.4's both ready made and compiled from source. If I manage to get supermount in the kernel, I get a kernel panic on boot. I was thinking it was a problem with ReiserFs compatibility (?) Don't use that. ? -s
Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
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
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
Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
On Friday 12 January 2001 08:36 am, Kevin Tambascio wrote: Have any of your tried the 2.4 kernel yet? I've tried several over the past few months. They're get'n better, either that or I am ;) 'Course my usual formula is to have a few beers and then decide to give 2.4.x another try ; I've always been able to boot them, but with mixed levels of success running them. Last try was last night with kernel-source-2.4.0-2mdk. It's all there in the config, no patches needed .. ppp_generic, ppp_async, ppp_deflate to get dialup going, ReiserFS support, and supermount, all built-in rather than as modules. Stuff like Vfat I also build in, and enable legacy support for ipchains so I don't have to redo firewall and portsentry. Size has been almost 100k bigger than my 2.2.x kernels at 750k. I could trim that down tho. I can get a flawless 2.4 going, but not with supermount working ;( 'supermount -i enable' is ignored, with supermount either built in or as a module. If I force the situation by putting in a saved supermount 'fstab', then I get a kernel panic on re-boot. I suspect it's a supermount/ReiserFS deal. I haven't fooled with tryin to fix it very much tho, I just get frustrated and reboot 2.2.18 ;) While running 2.4.x, about the only thing I've noticed is a very slight improvement in system response, slightly quicker loading. 2.4's memory management is said to be improved. My hdparm checks on HDD's were no change from 2.2.x. I don't have anything that needs 2.4. I just try it out of curiosity. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay 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
Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel
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
