I figured out what the problem is.  First a bit of background.

I've been running a RedHat 5.2 based firewall on my Pentium 133 for a 
couple of years.  As it had some closed source components, I decided to 
switch to Mandrake 8.2 and use SNF.  To avoid being off the net while 
switching over, I installed and configured using a different machine.  Then 
I moved the hard drive and encountered problems.  The first problem was 
SCSI drivers in modules, solved by having two "probeall" statements in 
modules.conf.  About the same time I enabled kudzu.  When I moved the SCSI 
hard drive from the install machine to the firewall machine, kudzu detected 
the change from a ps/2 mouse to a serial mouse.

All is fine now.

David

At 07:41 AM 5/16/02, you wrote:
>David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm working to update my Pentium 133 firewall from RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake
> > 8.2 with SNF.  As the standard 2.4.18-6mdksecure kernel doesn't run on a
> > plain old Pentium, I have rebuilt the kernel and can boot the machine with
> > it.
> >
> > However, gpm complains:
> >
> >       May 14 13:03:03 nic /usr/sbin/gpm: gpm startup succeeded
> >       May 14 13:03:03 nic /usr/sbin/gpm[1627]: oops() invoked from 
> gpm.c(988)
> >       May 14 13:03:03 nic /usr/sbin/gpm[1627]: /dev/mouse: No such 
> device or address
> >
> > The complaint seems to be processor related since I can boot the same
> > kernel (from the same hard drive) if I put the drive in a Pentium III (450
> > mhz) machine.
> >
> > Anybody know what's wrong here?  Is is a cpu architecture issue, as I 
> think?
> >
> > Thankd.
> >
> > David
>
>Hi there,
>
>I have been away for the last few days but here I'm back with some answers
>and hopefully soon with a first VPN configuration version/support.
>
>simply use the latest kernels as they have been recompiled with i586 support.
>
>
>cheers,
>--
>Florin                  http://www.mandrakesoft.com


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