On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:20 pm, Billy Kwong wrote: > James, > > > Hi All, > > > > Anyone know a good resource for upgrading a woody box to the 2.6.x > > kernels? > > > > I installed a backported 2.6.4 (from backports.org) and now a bunch of > > stuff is either broken fatally or throwing errors. > > > > The /etc/init.d/networking script wont work - ifup and dhclient both > > complain about the kernel version and refuse to work. "pump" is ok > > though. > > As Steve would have said, check your module names.
The module is still the same (8139too) but the dhclient complains about "unrecognized kernel version" and wont get a DHCP lease. But like I said earlier, "pump eth0" does the trick....now to rewrite the init scripts I guess (or is there a way to switch to pump without needing to get down and dirty with the networking subsystem/scripts??) > > The nfs stuff complains that "mount" is older than the kernel. > > I have that even under unstable. :( Grrr - you'd think an updated "mount" could be compiled....but that's probably over-simplifying it. > > There's other weirdness happening with my firewire and USB stuff too. > > Check the names of your USB host modules. It's called [enu]hci-hcd in the > 2.6 kernels. I guess it's similar for Firewire. Ah - that explains it :) Fixed that bit now - thanks. > I'm now running 2.6 kernels on unstable boxes, couldn't be happier. :) Yeh, I'm thinking I might rebuild this machine with Unstable/Sarge - I need more recent stuff anyway. James -- Fortune cookies says: "If I ever get around to writing that language depompisifier, it will change almost all occurences of the word "paradigm" into "example" or "model." -- Herbie Blashtfalt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
