On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, John C. Tull wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 01:58 PM, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, John C. Tull wrote:
> >
> >> After banging my head to build a kernel with support for both scsi (why
> >> can this not be in the default install kernel?) and aty128 this past
> >> weekend (from install cd, mount /sdc5 /mnt then mount -t hfs /dev/sdb6
> >> /mnt/mnt <-- interesting trick to get files from boot partition to hfs
> >> partition for BootX), I was able to fire up Mandrake 8.2b1.
> >>
> >
> > What kind of SCSI? There is support in the installer for several types,
> > at least I've been doing installs on the 7600 with SCSI drives somehow.
> > The support is modular, as is networking, etc.
> >
>
> I used modprobe mac53c94 in order to bring up scsi support. Perhaps the
> kernel uses Mesh?
>
They should both be available, as modules. This is a full list of the
modules available in 2.4.13 stage1:
[stew@powerbook-cooker testmt]$ mar -l modules/modules.mar
3c574_cs.o
3c589_cs.o
3c59x.o
3c90x.o
8139too.o
8390.o
af_packet.o
aha152x_cs.o
aic7xxx.o
airport.o
bmac.o
cb_enabler.o
com20020-pci.o
ds.o
eepro100.o
fdomain_cs.o
fmvj18x_cs.o
gmac.o
hermes.o
hfs.o
i82365.o
inflate_fs.o
isofs.o
isofs.o
lockd.o
loop.o
mac53c94.o
mace.o
mesh.o
netwave_cs.o
nfs.o
nmclan_cs.o
orinoco.o
pcmcia_core.o
pcnet_cs.o
qlogic_cs.o
reiserfs.o
sd_mod.o
smc91c92_cs.o
sr_mod.o
sunrpc.o
tcic.o
tulip.o
wavelan_cs.o
wvlan_cs.o
xirc2ps_cs.o
xircom_cb.o
xircom_tulip_cb.o
yenta_socket.o
> Is there a simple way to check if ppp was installed in the kernel? I am
> not sure how to check that out. BTW, wouldn't my modem communication not
> work whatsoever if I had left out modem support? I am able to
> initialize, dial, bring up a terminal, send commands to the terminal,
> etc. Somewhere I read about the need to have the script send 'ppp' after
> the password, but I am not at home to try that right now.
>
Well here's a kernel (installer), without PPP:
[stew@powerbook-cooker linux-install]$ grep PPP .config
# CONFIG_PPP is not set
I'm still not sure why you don't want to use the provided
install/installed kernels.
Stew Benedict
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