Re: sl 5.2 and reiserfs

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:34 PM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 greetings,

 in one of my system boxes, i have scientific linux 5.2, fedora 8 and 10,
 installed to ext3 fs, mandrake 2008 and '/home' installed to reiserfs.

 i access reiserfs from fc8, f10 and md2k8, and i need to access reiserfs
 from sl5.2.

 i have check with yum for a reiserfs package, but find none thru repos.

 is there a package available that i can install to allow sl5.2?

 reformatting is not a practical option.

You might want to try out a kernel module package for reiserfs
available from ElRepo:

http://elrepo.org

Follow the instructions to set up this repository and then issue a command:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-reiserfs

All kmod packages in this directory are kernel version independent
(kABI-tracking) - meaning there is no need to reinstall for each
kernel update.  They were built by Alan Bartlett who is also in the
Scientific Linux community.

I did a test install of kmod-reiserfs on a SL5.3 x86_64 system.  It
loaded fine with:

modprobe reiserfs

I then update the kernel to the latest and it survived the update.
Please note that I do not have a Reiser filesystem to test with.  So I
could only test loading / unloading the module.  I would appreciate it
if you could give it a try and let us know if this works for you.

If you need to uninstall it, it will be as easy as typing:

rpm -e kmod-reiserfs

Hope this helps,

Akemi

Re: WG311T wireless issue

[Steven Timm]

I see the same Warning:  Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 
21

on a pure Red Hat 5 update 3 machine, so whatever that warning
is coming from, it's not from anything that Troy or the rest of SL
is doing.

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 21 of Wireless 
Extension,

but has been compiled with version 20, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

And my wireless is working mostly OK.


Steve Timm


On Sun, 17 May 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:


Hi Tom,
I am going to snip parts of your message out.  Not that I don't think it is 
important, but more so I can concentrate on one thing.


Tom Rosmond wrote:
... snip ...


Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 21 of Wireless
Extension,
but has been compiled with version 20, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11  ESSID:olympicMode:Managed 
Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
00:1B:2F:E3:DF:4A Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm 
Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B Link 
Quality=51/100  Signal level=-62 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm

  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


... snip ...


3. Although the versions of madwifi and wireless-tools in SL 5.3 should
be more current than I installed on the 32 bit system, the warning about
version mismatch for the 64 bit system suggests otherwise.  This I don't
understand.


... snip ...

This has me concerned because this isn't the first time I've seen this 
message.


I'm worried that perhaps the machine I am compiling these on has a wrong 
version of a package or two.  Despite my efforts I am not the greatest 
wireless expert and it's possible I'm doing something wrong with the 
compiling.  From what I can tell, my 32 bit and 64 bit compile area's are the 
same for wireless.  But maybe I am looking at the wrong packages.


Does anyone know where I should start looking to track down this error?  Or 
even if there is anything I can do to fix it?


Troy



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