Mark Wagnon wrote:
>
> Paul Maynard wrote:
> >
> > i compiled a new kernel and when i ran linux under the new kernel i did not have
> > support for ppp or vfat filesystems which i previously had. i just wanted to
> > modify my current kernel, can you get the config program to know what your
> > current kernel config is? there is a load kernel config from file option but i
> > don't know if i have a file with my current kernel config(it's the kernel from
> > the initial install).
>
> The kernel images that are available to you at install time are on disk
> 1 of the suse cdrom under suse/images. It's kind of a pain to find which
> one your using as their named similarly. After you locate it, you can
> copy it to /usr/src/linux and rename to .config. After that, you should
> be able to check out the original settings. I had the same problems with
> ppp and vfat when I rebuilt my kernel, but I had elected to compile
> those features as modules, and the didn't work. I then compiled them
> into the kernel and that seemed to solve the problem. Does anyone know
> which features should be compiled as modules and which should be put in
> the kernel? The reason I ask is that I didn't include support for IPX in
This sounds odd. partially. I had problems with my network card, it
worked as a module from the boot disk, but never as a module from a
kernel compile. Later, I found /etc/conf.modules, were I had to change a
irq setting to get it working.
This should *not* be the case with ppp or vfat. I learned recently that
conf.modules is sort of configuration file for kerneld. ppp is some sort
of network, and there must be something -sort of "declared"- in conf
modules. It's a good idea to look into /var/log/messages:
This was my problem:
Dec 22 20:00:05 arthurdent modprobe: can't locate module tty-ldisc-5
This was my solution:
alias tty-ldisc-5 mkiss
alias net-pf-3 ax25
in conf.modules
this should be in conf.modules for ppp
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp
I belive SuSE looks after conf.modules for ppp (amateur radio is
something else.. ;-))
it is worth a consideration.
Unfortunately, I do not know much about this, I got a very rough intro
into this around xmas.
> my kernel, and when I switch the the console listing the background
> messages I saw a bunch of lines saying that the kernel didn't have IPX
> support.
>
# alias net-pf-4 ipx
hmm. looking in my conf modules and thinking about the above, I'd be
brave enough to uncomment that line.
> >
> > should i compile in sound support or should i use OSS?
>
I use the standard sound module and isapnp. (that makes it nessesary to
compile a module) With 5.3 you have to load the module by hand
(compatibility with OSS)
Try a cat /dev/sndstat after initialising your card with isapnp. There
should be info to this topic in the SDB, that's were I got it (german).
If you dont find an english translation, let me know. It was not to
much.
I read good things about OSS, so you might try this as an alternative.
> My understanding was that you still have to compile sound support, you
> just don't need to set any low level driver options during the config.
>
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