Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:41 PM, William Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am playing with LFS for the first time on my Dell Inspiron 1420n. >> (At some point, I might write a beginners' walkthrough for getting LFS >> working on this laptop model.) Overall, I like what I've seen so far >> of LFS. >> >> Except for some oddness with the SCSI drive on my machine (kernel >> modules don't help much for mounting the root directory when you're >> not using initrd ...) all of the problems I've had earlier I've traced >> directly to something stupid I did. > > Yeah, initramfs is definitely the way to go, but it can be a serious > pain to setup. Bryan Kadzban created an initramfs tool, but it hasn't > made it into LFS yet. Someday.
I disagree. It is much easier to just build the driver directly into the kernel. Modules don't make much sense at all if you know what hardware you have. > Wireless is not a lot of fun, especially if encryption is involved. I > don't think we cover it much at all in BLFS. I personally let > NetworkManager handle all the details, but getting that all built and > setup is another story altogether. Wireless and encryption is addressed in BLFS and the wiki: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/basicnet/wireless_tools.html http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/WirelessTools There are a lot of drivers that are not specifically addressed, but the driver that is discussed can act as a guideline for other drivers. Note that the driver problem occurs for a relatively large number of wifi cards. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
