[expert] keeping track of ack no

hi, i am writing a module that clamps the tcp receiver window size... i need to be able to tell when slow start ends, but at the receiver... so i need to be able to keep track of when 3 duplicate acknowledgements are sent out by the receiver... what info in the kernel do i access to do

[expert] /var/log/messages

hi... my /var/log/messages file is too big... and as i understand, it gets compressed and moved to messages1.gz every 7 days... how do u force it to do it now? also, it is safe to manually delete the messages*.gz files right? thanks Asmeet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] bios data check failure

hi i am currently using Mandrake 9 and kernel 2.4.19 which came with it... so far my experiences recompiling the kernel have only been limited to using the kernel source rpm for mandrake... now when i try to compile the kernel source (2.4.18 and 2.4.20) from www.kernel.org, it compiles

Re: [expert] bios data check failure

i downloaded linux-2.4.20.tar.gz from www.kernel.org... then executed the following commands: tar xzvf linux-2.4.20.tar.gz make menuconfig (picked QoS and fair queueing... which i need... didn't really look at the rest) make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make

[expert] installing lkcd

has anyone using mandrake 9 been successfull in installing lkcd? i have been trying to debug a kernel panic and want to install lkcd to fix it... but i have tried different things several times and each time a different error crops up while recompiling the kernel... if anyone of u has gotten

[expert] make bzImage error

hi... i am running kernel 2.4.19 but need to downgrade to 2.4.18 to run an application... installing the kernel source (linux-2.4.18.tar.gz) did not produce any errors... so i did a 'make dep' and 'make clean' and while executing 'make bzImage', it says smpboot.c:65: conflicting types for

[expert] lkcd kernel patch

hi... i am running kernel version 2.4.19 and the lkcd patch for it is not available at lkcd.sourceforge.net does anyone know where to get it? or can i use the patch for 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 without problems arising later on... thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] cannot find -lbfd

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbfd It's looking for libbfd.so. i currently have binutils-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk installed... That provides

[expert] cannot find -lbfd

hi... i am running Mandrake 9... i downloaded ksymoops-2.4.9.tar.gz when i run 'make', it says /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbfd collect1: ld returned exit 1 status make: *** [ksymoops] Error 1 i currently have binutils-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk installed... has anybody experienced this problem?