Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-29 Thread Andreas Jaeger
We've fixed bug 266886 - a bug with raid setups and our developers and QA team have tested heavily all situations they could think of. I've just released a new repository with an updated perl-bootloader - and a new kernel with some minor fixes to:

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-29 Thread Benji Weber
On 4/29/07, Andreas Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've fixed bug 266886 - a bug with raid setups and our developers and QA team have tested heavily all situations they could think of. I've just released a new repository with an updated perl-bootloader - and a new kernel with some minor

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-17 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 16 April 2007, Thomas Hertweck wrote: STDIN wrote: [...] I tried, its not there: # modprobe usbfs FATAL: Module usbfs not found. As already mentioned several times on this list: usbfs is not a self-contained kernel module. It's part of usbcore which is most likely compiled

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-17 Thread Thomas Hertweck
John Andersen wrote: [...] Well that brings it full circle then, doesn't it Thomas? The OP posted that he DID try the new kernel (the subject of this thread) and it did NOT work for him, and others (mistakenly) suggested he modprobe it, only to be told by you that its in the kernel and

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-16 Thread Thomas Hertweck
STDIN wrote: [...] I tried, its not there: # modprobe usbfs FATAL: Module usbfs not found. As already mentioned several times on this list: usbfs is not a self-contained kernel module. It's part of usbcore which is most likely compiled as a module. Therefore, you should get your USB_DEVICEFS

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-14 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 13 April 2007 15:21:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usbfs was never removed from the kernel, it was not enable, so it was very simple to turn it on. How, please? -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 14 April 2007 04:46, Bob Williams wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 15:21:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usbfs was never removed from the kernel, it was not enable, so it was very simple to turn it on. How, please? Only by rebuilding the kernel from source. It was not run-time

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Thomas Hertweck wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: [...] And If I recall correctly (but I'm not 100% sure), USBDEVFS is not available for compilation as a loadable module. It is. It's not a self-contained module, but this feature is part of the usbcore.ko module. I guess what he wanted to

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-14 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 07:58:52AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 14 April 2007 04:46, Bob Williams wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 15:21:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usbfs was never removed from the kernel, it was not enable, so it was very simple to turn it on. How,

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
Marcus, On Saturday 14 April 2007 10:01, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 07:58:52AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 14 April 2007 04:46, Bob Williams wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 15:21:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usbfs was never removed from the kernel, it

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 14 April 2007 10:13, Marcus Meissner wrote: ... Is it true that a kernel update will be released through the official openSUSE update service that includes this reconfiguration? Actually this kernel update that is in the testrepo will be the actual kernelupdate we will

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-14 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
Bob, Most likely you are using it for hotsyn to the PALM so I also added few tricks not related specifically to your question but that are important to hot sync with VMware. If you use the new kernel you will still need those tips to hotsync of course you will not need to enable usbfs. Using USB

[opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Jaeger
The last kernel update for openSUSE 10.2 showed a couple of bugs (see bugreport #252911) in the code that updates the bootloader configuration after a kernel update. We have tried to fix all of them and did internal testing - and fixed further bugs encountered during the internal testing. Now

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-13 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote: The new kernel contains as most interesting feature the re-enablement of CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS - and also a small number of bugfixes.  For me it's most interesting to have the kernel so that you can test that the bootloader rewrite works ;-) Why

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Jaeger
John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 12 April 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote: The new kernel contains as most interesting feature the re-enablement of CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS - and also a small number of bugfixes.  For me it's most interesting to have the kernel so that you can test

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS This feature is really important for the Virtualization software around ! (and therefore for me) Why did it get removed from 10.2 ? I have heard of security reasons, now I don't believe this, since if it were security, it would

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-13 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:39:49PM +0100, Alexey Eremenko wrote: CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS This feature is really important for the Virtualization software around ! (and therefore for me) Why did it get removed from 10.2 ? I have heard of security reasons, now I don't believe this, since if it

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-13 Thread chusty
VMware. It only affected very few usb devices. Most of them worked OK. I believe the pressure to make changes should go to VMware (IMHO) -terry- -Original Message- From: Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test Date: Fri Apr 13