I've posted a few times recently that I couldn't get supermount
(with ReiserFS) working with a 2.4 kernel. I've also been doing all
Chris Molnar's KDE2 updates, and began to have show stopper problems
after 20010109. The same was true for the latest 20010122 updates,
so I decided to reinstall 7.2. That and Chris' latest upddates went
so well, I decided to try again with 2.4, so I d/l'd the pre-built
kernel-2.4.0-11mdk after reading on the cooker list that supermount
"now works right out of the box" with the ready made kernel.
It doesn't ....but the fix is so simple I believe I could'a had a
2.4 with supermount long before now. It finally dawned on me that
'supermount.o' is in a different location with 2.4 kernels. So I
edited /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime this line ~~
# Disabling supermount if not here
if [[ $(uname -m) != sparc* ]];then
if grep -q '^\/.*supermount.*' /etc/fstab && \
[ ! -f "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs/supermount/supermount.o"
. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
] && [ -x /usr/bin/perl ];then
action "Disabling Supermount" /usr/sbin/supermount -i disable
~~ to reflect 'supermount.o's new location. Voila! Now I have
2.4.0-11 with supermount on ReiserFS. PPP was also not working "right
out of the box", but a simple 'modprobe -v ppp_async' statement at the
end of rc.local fixed that.
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
