Re: laptop: my own kernels don't work

1999-08-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Aug 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > Not all laptops. My Thinkpad 600 is quite happy with a 2.2.11pre2 > bzimage. > So too is my Toshiba 4000CDT. I've been using bzImage kernels (2.2.x) for several months with no problems at all. In fact, the occasional inexplicable hang which sometimes o

Re: laptop: my own kernels don't work

1999-08-12 Thread mcclosk
|> Is there a HOWTO on how to compile my own pcmcia modules? I have |> the source but I have never done this before. I will go into the |> source and see if I can find some docs there. The PCMCIA HOWTO is very clear and complete about this. The latest version is available in various formats at:

Re: laptop: my own kernels don't work

1999-08-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: > I am using a README in /usr/doc/pcmcia-source ATM and though it explains > things pretty well, I still don't have compliance from my laptop. > > Thanks to all for their help. I now have compliance from my laptop. The new kernel has functional networking now :) -

Re: laptop: my own kernels don't work

1999-08-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Aug-99 Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > Not all laptops. My Thinkpad 600 is quite happy with a 2.2.11pre2 > bzimage. I just went to a zImage and the laptop is happy. I am still wrangling with pcmcia-source, but I can always go back to the original kernel which I kept as backup. I am also gett

Re: laptop: my own kernels don't work

1999-08-12 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12-Aug-99 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > I recently installed slink on a Thinkpad 560 too. I'm using kernel 2.2.5 > > however, I think your problem could just be the bzImage. Have you tried > > using a zImage instead? Many laptops have a

Re: laptop: my own kernels don't work

1999-08-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Aug-99 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I recently installed slink on a Thinkpad 560 too. I'm using kernel 2.2.5 > however, I think your problem could just be the bzImage. Have you tried > using a zImage instead? Many laptops have a problem loading the bzImage > compressed kernels

Re: laptop: my own kernels don't work

1999-08-12 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I installed Slink on a ThinkPad 560 and all is well, but if I install my > own kernel source in /usr/src/linux and compile it, this kernel will not > work; the machine goes into endless reboots even though I used 'make > bzImage'. It will boot from floppy an

laptop: my own kernels don't work

1999-08-12 Thread Pollywog
I installed Slink on a ThinkPad 560 and all is well, but if I install my own kernel source in /usr/src/linux and compile it, this kernel will not work; the machine goes into endless reboots even though I used 'make bzImage'. It will boot from floppy and also from hard drive when I use the kernel b