Since this isn't a newsgroup, every time a new user downloads or buys LM
8.0, we get the same batch of questions. For example, issues related to LM
and a PS/2 mouse or the IBM trackpoint.
Any chance on someone from Mandrake archiving and reposting some of these
FAQ's?
-- A. Rick
I was overly quick to say things were working after upgrading to 2.4.4 (in
order to get the Thinkpad trackpoint working).
Now it doesn't seem to know anything about networking, including being able
to find eth0.
My first reaction is to back up to my 7.2 recovery disk, and recompile the
kernel
I spoke too soon. I can't get the new kernel 2.4.4 to recognize my
nic. At boot it tells me that it can't load agpart or the root fs. Later
it says that modprobe with module 3c589_cs fails.
It boots, but with no support for the network.
I've tried rebuilding the kernel with:
1) make oldconf
Well, the following steps finally did it:
1) downloaded 2.4.4 from: http://www.kernel.org/
2) Did a bunch of makes (suggestions from a variety of folks and sources)
a) make oldconfig (keeps the old values as defaults)
b) make dep
c) make bzImage
d) make modules
3) cp the bzImage to /boot. (this f
Following the directions in the README, I
make config
make dep
make bzImage
According to the README, you're supposed to replace the exisiting kernel
image with the new image. But the current image is simple a link to
vmlinuz in /boot. So I copied the new image to /boot/vmlinux-2.4.4 and
moved
An approach taken by Turgut Kalfaoglu, posted here earlier, was to download
and recompile the original kernel. I'm downloading the 2.4.4 kernel now,
so we will see how it goes. According to Turgut , the directions made it a
piece of cake and now everything is working just fine.
http://www.ke
This is becoming a FAQ :-) Mandrake broke the PS/2 code because their
developers had weird keyboards with empty PS/2 ports that were causing
everything to lock up during boot time since they weren't using those
ports. So they disabled it.
Some folks have been able to get it to work, but most
