On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:23:40PM +0000, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
ScruLoose wrote:
Try the i82092 module. It lists support for the CL 6729.
I think it probably won't work, however...
Hm. I don't *think* that worked, but I'm not entirely sure. The i82092 module loads, but subsequent attempts to modprobe pcnet_cs result in the familiar error:
Hmmm. I would have expected loading the module to fail. Was there any output at all on "modprobe i82092". Did anything appear in /var/log/syslog?
Not sure.Does this look like the module doesn't support my hardware, or is there some sort of vital step I'm leaving out in between there?
Not really; I was digging around in kernel sources.
... because it only actually refers to it in the current 2.4.22 pre-release kernels, not in 2.4.18 or even 2.4.21.
Now, when you say "refers to it"... Is this information I should know where to look for myself?
I wouldn't think it's a security risk. There is some instability risk; in my experience the pre kernels are usually stable enough, but there's no guarantee. If something breaks in a released stable kernel, various people will be very embarassed, but in a pre-release they'll just look all innocent and say "but it *was* a test kernel" :-)maybe now's the time.
That does lead me to another question: would it be any significant security risk (or instability risk) to use a pre-release kernel on a firewall?
In any case, 2.4.22rc1 has *just* appeared on the mirrors. (rc=release candidate). You can interpret that as "it's stable enough now, let's go", or that a final release is days not weeks away and you might as well wait, depending on taste...
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