Hi,
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 12:23 +0000, Richard Docksey wrote:
> thanks for the advice (and to the others who have pointed this out)
> I'll try it out as soon as I get home - can you tell me why this is
> necessary though - it smacks of a workaround to me ? or should I rtfm
> (if so which one)?
Well, I'd say RTFM wouldn't hurt ;-) See the kernel
configuration help (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help)
for the net-pf-1 entry.
The `char-major-4 off' entry keeps kmod (the kernel module
loader) from trying to load the serial module which isn't needed
since serial support is compiled into the kernel. Just wonder
why kmod isn't able to detect that itself?
> btw - I worked around this problem by not compiling anything as
> modules, I find my kernel to be aroun 900K (bad) but my machine seems
> to be on steroids at the moment thanks to the new kernel (good ;) so I
> don't mind too much. Ideally I'd like ppp, sound and some filesystem
> support all module-ised; I'm curious as to typical kernel sizes out
> there, if anybody feels like sharing the information I, at least,
> would be very interested.
[sttr]/home/sttr> l /vmlinuz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409684 Feb 11 22:19 /vmlinuz
That is with ide+scsi+ext2fs support compiled into the kernel,
everything else that can be compiled as a module is module-ised.
Ciao,
Stefan
-
To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the
archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
