Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:12, Adrian Zimmer wrote: > As to lspci, I did take your advice but the results seemed to tell > me nothing useful. Here they are is. Maybe, you will see something > interesting: > > >From 2.2.20-idepci > > 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN

Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-29 Thread Adrian Zimmer
As to lspci, I did take your advice but the results seemed to tell me nothing useful. Here they are is. Maybe, you will see something interesting: >From 2.2.20-idepci 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 Ethernet Adapter (rev 11) Subsystem: Accton Techn

Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:35, Adrian Zimmer wrote: > No, no; ifconfig says the interface is up and running with both > kernel images. Obviously *a* tulip module is installed (one way > or the other). Happens to be two different ones. > > I compiled tulip in to 2.4.18 whereas I don't know how t

Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-29 Thread Adrian Zimmer
No, no; ifconfig says the interface is up and running with both kernel images. Obviously *a* tulip module is installed (one way or the other). Happens to be two different ones. I compiled tulip in to 2.4.18 whereas I don't know how the prepackaged 2.2.20-idepci worked. I'd kinda like to tr

Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Adrian Zimmer wrote: > with 2.2.20 I get > > eth0: Accton EN1217/EN2242 (ADMtek Comet) rev 17 at 0xc6022000, 00:D0:59:24:04:C0, > IRQ 11. > eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 786d advertising 01e1. > > whereas with 2.4.18 I get > > eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x1c00, 00:D0:59:24:04:

Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-28 Thread Adrian Zimmer
Thanks, I had already seen in dmesg and ifconfig that the ethernet was configured. There is a difference that I had not thought consequential: with 2.2.20 I get eth0: Accton EN1217/EN2242 (ADMtek Comet) rev 17 at 0xc6022000, 00:D0:59:24:04:C0, IRQ 11. eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 sta

Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:46, Adrian Zimmer wrote: > I have version 2.2.20 (idepci downloaded) running OK (at runlevel 2). > > I have version 2.4.18 (compiled myself under 2.2.20) running sort-of OK > (again runlevel 2). > > One difference is that my self-configured/compiled version isn't est

Re: kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x ?

2003-07-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shango" == Shango Oluwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shango> Why, if 2.4.x is more recent & secure, is my Debian 3 Shango> (woody) CD distribution built with kernel 2.2.20 ? and in response to several good explanations "Shango" asks: Shango> Is kernel 2.4.21 considered safe f

Re: kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x ?

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:12:42PM +0100, Shango Oluwa wrote: > Why, if 2.4.x is more recent & secure, is my Debian 3 (woody) CD > distribution built with kernel 2.2.20 ? Cause 2.4 wasn't out long enough to be well tested before Woody came out. - --

Re: kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x ?

2003-07-06 Thread aradorlinux
El Sun, 06 Jul 2003 21:12:42 +0100 Shango Oluwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Why, if 2.4.x is more recent & secure, is my Debian 3 (woody) CD distribution > built with kernel 2.2.20 ? Obviously you haven't looked at the latest security issues in 2.4.X kernels. BTW; the default 2.4.18-bf2.4 at

Re: kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x ?

2003-07-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 06 July 2003 23:18, Shango Oluwa wrote: > - I have also considered LRP but that distribution seems to be > crumbling and unsupported The guy who did the LRP just recently gave up, so you aren't likely to see anything new from that thing soon. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x ?

2003-07-06 Thread Shango Oluwa
Nicos wrote: Mostly because the 2.4 series had some serious (as in "don't use for production machines") problems when Woody was locked. Understood. Is kernel 2.4.21 considered safe for a production machine now? I'm configuring an internet router and have been advised to use 2.4.21 - I have also c

Re: kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x ?

2003-07-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 06 July 2003 22:12, Shango Oluwa wrote: > Why, if 2.4.x is more recent & secure, is my Debian 3 (woody) CD > distribution built with kernel 2.2.20 ? Mostly because the 2.4 series had some serious (as in "don't use for production machines") problems when Woody was locked. -- Got Backup

Re: Kernel 2.2 to 2.4 on a laptop

2002-10-15 Thread Keith O'Connell
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:44:57 -0700 Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a web page that kindof summarizes the differences between 2.2 > > and 2.4 on >a laptop. > > http://www.milagrosoft.com/products/software/debian-woody.html I will give this a try at the weekend! Thanks very

Re: Kernel 2.2 to 2.4 on a laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Eric Richardson
Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with my laptop which I would appreciate some guidance with. It is a >Dell Inspiron 3700 (hardly cutting edge now!) > > I installed Woody on it with the default 2.2 kernel and the various packages I want >and it runs fine. I then use dselect to

Re: Kernel 2.2 to 2.4 on a laptop

2002-10-13 Thread Keith O'Connell
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:29:34 -0400 Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 02:11:13PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > I have a problem with my laptop which I would appreciate some guidance with. It is >a Dell Inspiron 3700 (hardly cutting edge now!) > > > > I installed Woo

Re: Kernel 2.2 to 2.4 on a laptop

2002-10-13 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 02:11:13PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I have a problem with my laptop which I would appreciate some guidance with. It is a >Dell Inspiron 3700 (hardly cutting edge now!) > > I installed Woody on it with the default 2.2 kernel and the various packages I want >and it

Re: Kernel 2.2.x and Physical Memory

2000-03-27 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> If I'm not mistaken, I read that the 2.2.x Kernel and later no longer made > you add: > > append="mem=128M" > > ..to lilo.conf to get it to use more than 64MB of RAM (in my case, 128MB). > 2.2.x is not 100% correct - it became superflous with 2.2.10 or something like that - at least on my sys

Re: kernel 2.2 -- no sound?

2000-01-03 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
> I finally broke down and decided to compile a 2.2.13 kernel despite > the fact that my 2.0.36 kernel continues to work perfectly. > Just curious, why did you decide to `upgrade'? I'm trying to decide whether I should do the same. -- Matthew Roberts

Re: kernel 2.2 -- no sound?

1999-12-25 Thread Carl Fink
Gregory T. Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to select "OSS sound modules" first, then the SB16 stuff will > show up. You're kidding. How on Earth is someone supposed to know that, except by asking you folks? SoundBlaster support wasn't in OSS in 2.0.x. Thank you very much. -- Carl

Re: kernel 2.2 -- no sound?

1999-12-25 Thread Gregory T. Norris
You need to select "OSS sound modules" first, then the SB16 stuff will show up. On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I finally broke down and decided to compile a 2.2.13 kernel despite > the fact that my 2.0.36 kernel continues to work perfectly. > > Well, 2.2.13 worked ok

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-27 Thread Holger Nassenstein
Hi, It works. You should update a few packages, especially the user-space nfsd. Have a look on Documentation/Changes. Up to date is 2.2.13 Ciao, Holger -- "I'd love to go out with you, but I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture."

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
make sure your running 2.1r3 of slink and you should have -no- trouble, anything earlier *might* be missing a package. some things like lsof i had to recompile for myself. nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, andreas [iso-8859-1] p?lsson wrote: andrea >Hello. andrea > andrea >I have a Slink system which

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a Slink system which runs very fine with the 2.0.38 kernel. No > problems or shutdowns at all. Ok. > > Now I want to use the 2.2.x kernel because of some features, but I want > to know first if it is possible to run v2.2.x kern

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread Brian May
> "andreas" == andreas pålsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: andreas> The other option is to run Potato, since I just need the andreas> base and enough tools to compile the 2.2 kernel. But andreas> this system _must_ be stable and I fear Potato ain't andreas> really there yet.

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread andreas pålsson
Hello. Nice see that it is possible and thanks for the tip. Looking at the URL you gave me and the installed versions of my packages I only saw that "Util-linux" was 2.9g but 2.9t was required. Seems like no big deal. I have no problem in compiling and installing programs, but I would like to st

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

1999-11-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
andreas pЕlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Slink system which runs very fine with the 2.0.38 kernel. No > problems or shutdowns at all. > Now I want to use the 2.2.x kernel because of some features, but I want > to know first if it is possible to run v2.2.x kernel on a Slink system. >

Re: kernel 2.2.x (x>7) & nfs very verbosy

1999-09-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 02:06:09PM -0600, Rogerio A. de Paula wrote: > I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.x version (I tried different ones), but now I > always get a warning message from mount saying that the compiled version > of mount is older than the kernel (although I've already recompiled > mount!

Re: Kernel 2.2 with Debian potat0

1999-07-19 Thread Brad
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ian Stuart wrote: > There's a package "kernel-package" (warning, dependent on Perl, so you > won't be able to do apt-based install under Potato). It's been updated, so it should install correctly no matter if you have perl-5.004 or perl-5.005 installed.

Re: Kernel 2.2 with Debian potat0

1999-07-19 Thread Ian Stuart
Evan S wrote: > I'm just wondering, if I want to upgrade to 2.2.10 in potato, how do I > do that? I want to apt-get the source code so I can enable sound and > such, do you know what command I do? And what steps are involved? There's a package "kernel-package" (warning, dependent on Perl, so you wo

Re: Kernel 2.2 and slink.

1999-06-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Jun, Bill White wrote about "Kernel 2.2 and slink." > Hi. I'm sorry for bothering, but I am thinking of upgrading my 2.0.36 > kernel to 2.2. I am running a fairly stock installation of slink, but with > more recent kde and gnome packages. I seem to remember some talk on this > list abou

Re: Kernel 2.2 Upgrade questions

1999-06-03 Thread Ryan Novosielski \[no vo sel skee\]
ZIP drive support is under SCSI (it is a SCSI low-level driver). Why not upgrade to 2.2.9, I believe there were sound issues in 2.2.1. * Ryan Novosielski - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.bergen.org/~ryanov + inSite e'zine - http://www.teenvoice.com - EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + AAST Master 98 - ht

Re: Kernel 2.2 Upgrade questions

1999-05-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > I heard that the new kernel is very modular. Does this mean I can have a > > lean mean kernel and include only the modules I need? Is SMP turned on by > > default? If so would it make sense to turn it off for single processor > > systems so as

Re: Kernel 2.2 Upgrade questions

1999-05-25 Thread shaleh
> > I heard that the new kernel is very modular. Does this mean I can have a > lean mean kernel and include only the modules I need? Is SMP turned on by > default? If so would it make sense to turn it off for single processor > systems so as to get better performance? > a) get 2.2.5 or higher, 2

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-19 Thread Kris
In reply to Johnny Thompson: > I had the same problem.. IP masquerade isn't re-reading > the firewall rules after the link goes down. Creating a > null /etc/{wherever}ipmasqueradeislocatedinthisdirectory/ppp > .file. > > touch /etc/ipmasq/ppp .. That should solve your problem.. ;) > > If

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-19 Thread Sean
Like a dolt, I didn't even recognize this. I had the exact same problem that Kris has described, and after a reinstall, I noticed it went away "automagically". Of course, I don't have ipmasq installed this time. *doh!* BTW, HTML-mail SUCKS. :) Sean Johnny Thompson wrote: I had the same proble

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-19 Thread Johnny Thompson
I had the same problem.. IP masquerade isn't re-reading the firewall rules after the link goes down.  Creating a null /etc/{wherever}ipmasqueradeislocatedinthisdirectory/ppp file. touch /etc/ipmasq/ppp .. That should solve your problem.. ;)  If that doesn't work, uninstall ipmasq because you prob

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-18 Thread Kris
In reply to John Pearson: >These [Exim things in ps ax output] should run briefly when you start >your session, and then be gone. > >If they are still running it may be that there is a problem with exim's >setup that is preventing it from quitting in a timely manner, or it may >just be a further s

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-18 Thread Kris
{blush} You can tell I follow the digest now... darn. Apologies for the waste of bandwidth, but it's for archive continuity (and so people actually know wts(meg) I was going on about). Re-send, in reply to "Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, with the correct subject: > Nope. inetd has been well and

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-May-99 Sean wrote: > A quick kludge that might fix your problem (it fixed it on my machine under > hamm, and after I get done upgrading to slink, I'm going to try it there) is > to kill inetd. I think the problem revolves around the netbase script in > the /etc/init.d folder trying to use i

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-17 Thread Sean
A quick kludge that might fix your problem (it fixed it on my machine under hamm, and after I get done upgrading to slink, I'm going to try it there) is to kill inetd. I think the problem revolves around the netbase script in the /etc/init.d folder trying to use ifwadm(or something like that) inst

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-17 Thread Kris
At 19:35 16/05/1999 +, you wrote: >After I got everything installed, I >immediately downloaded, installed and ran apt-get, and promptly upgraded to >Slink, just as I had done when Slink first went stable. And now I can't use >any of the >2.0.x kernels AND have ppp work. I've tried everything

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-16 Thread John Hasler
Kris writes: > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain globalnet.co.uk # <- Tried with, without, > search globalnet.co.uk # <- and combinations of. > nameserver 194.126.82.5 > nameserver 194.126.86.9 The 'domain' and 'search' directives won't affect your problem (In fact they are rarely needed at all).

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-16 Thread Sean
Sean -Original Message- From: Kris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem? >At 08:32 16/05/1999 +, you wrote: > >I have a working ppp on kernel 2.2.9. my pppd command

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-16 Thread Kris
At 08:32 16/05/1999 +, you wrote: >I have a working ppp on kernel 2.2.9. my pppd command is > >exec /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 lock modem crtscts \ > asyncmap 0 defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT >pppd --version >(pppd version 2.3 patch level 5) > >egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/opt

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-16 Thread Kris
At 20:21 15/05/1999 +, you wrote: >Ppp is known to have problems with 2.2.X. Indeed it does. *thwap* >How about the far end of the ppp link? Nope; the only thing I can ping or otherwise communicate with is localhost & the dynamic IP which I'm assigned (from /var/log/ppp.log). >Option nam

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem? Date: Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:46:14PM +0100 In reply to:Kris Quoting Kris([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Problem: PPP works fine under kernel 2.0.36; under 2.2.x it connects, but > it seems like no packets go in or out. tcpdump only shows what

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Kris writes: > Problem: PPP works fine under kernel 2.0.36; under 2.2.x it connects, but > it seems like no packets go in or out. Ppp is known to have problems with 2.2.X. > ...not _any_ remote IPs (including my nameservers). How about the far end of the ppp link? > -am and -vj make no differen

Re: Kernel 2.2.xx

1999-01-28 Thread servis
*- On 28 Jan, Jyrki Malinen wrote about "Kernel 2.2.xx" > When Kernel 2.2.xx will be included to Debian/GNU Linux release, and to > what release version, potato? > The default kernel image for slink will still be 2.0.36 but a source package for 2.2.0 will be included in slink. Slink is not 100%

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-10 Thread Dale E. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: > I am still running hamm on my machines and would like to delay the > update to slink until it's finally released. > > I would like, however, to try the 2.2 kernel in a few days. Which > packets do I need to upgrade to the slink version to make 2.2 run? I >

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-10 Thread Marc Haber
On 07 Jan 1999 14:05:13 +0100, you wrote: >I believe that everything needed for linux 2.2.0 is avaible in slink. I am still running hamm on my machines and would like to delay the update to slink until it's finally released. I would like, however, to try the 2.2 kernel in a few days. Which packe

Re: kernel 2.2 and modutils

1999-01-09 Thread Gregory T. Norris
The two options I used to get around it... 1) cd /lib/modules ; mv 2.0.0 2.2.0-pre6 ; depmod -a or 2) upgrade kernel-package to the version in potato, which will create the module-directory under the correct name On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 05:52:48PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > There mu

Re: kernel 2.2 and modutils

1999-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 05:52:48PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > There must be a trick to this. > > I just installed kernel 2.2.0-pre6. modutils doesn't insert anything; > depmod -a says > > [5:50pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# depmod -a > can't open /lib/modules/2.2.0-pre6/modules.dep > > which is be

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-08 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I doubt that kernel 2.2.0 will actually be included in slink (due to it's frozen status), but slink should work just fine with it. I've been using the later 2.1/2.2.0-pre kernels for the last few months witout any problems. The only two changes I've had to make are: 1) Add an entry in /etc/cromt

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-08 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Thomas Janke wrote: > > The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon. > Is Debian ready for the new kernel? > Will Slink be? > I'm running 2.2.0pre4 on Slink right now with no apparent problems, so even though Slink won't likely ship with 2.2, you can upgr

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Thomas Janke wrote: > The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon. > Is Debian ready for the new kernel? > Will Slink be? Yes, also it will not ship with it as default kernel (probably not ship with it at all). I do not know all issues, but what I know sou

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-07 Thread Helge Hafting
> The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon. > Is Debian ready for the new kernel? > Will Slink be? > Slink is "frozen". That means only bugfixes get in, no new improvements. This applies to kernels as well as applications. So 2.2.0 won't likely be in slink. It may appear in the next version

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-07 Thread Peter Makholm
Thomas Janke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon. Lets hope so... > Is Debian ready for the new kernel? > Will Slink be? Slink will not include the new kernel. Linux 2.2.0 is pretty much new code compared to 2.0.X and will probaly not go into a frozen distr