On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:08 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: > Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > >On Tuesday 28 January 2003 12:03 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: > >>I am curious as to Which OS Version you encountered this? > >[...] > > > >Really? Perhaps another problem to chalk up to the many with 2.4.19 (and > >higher) kernels? I encountered this problem with Mandrake 9.0 > >kernel-2.4.19-2mdk, customized build. I find I generally have to build my > >own kernel to get wireless working properly regardless of version but > > 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 have given me fits - problems with filesystem support > > (both XFS and RieserFS) and usb primarily. Supermount hasn't been too > > much of a problem for me as yet. [...] > Are you indicating that 9.0 doesn't support anything other than ext2 or > ext3? If so, Where's the BEEF? Do you have any Documentation available? > > I never got any answers from support either, must have been the Chapter > 11 filing issues ..... Would like to get the 9.0 running on it, but I > have no idea what will provide support for the ReiserFS filesystem.
I didn't have any problems booting up and running my system (sans wireless lan) with the stock, prebuilt Mandrake 9.0 kernel. Upon building my own kernel (because I had to patch the kernel's hub.c to get wireless working) I lost the ability to bootup - my system was 100% XFS. Stock kernel, no problem, custom kernel built with gcc 3.2, problem. I then tried 2.4.20 from Cooker. Same thing only by that point I had decided to go to ReiserFS so I could use a kernel NOW rather than at some future point where, presumably, XFS support would be working again. I built the 2.4.20 kernel without hitch (using gcc 3.2 default) and rebooted. Kernel panic, couldn't handle XFS. I went back to the stock 9.0 kernel and did some digging. I then found that there are "issues" with gcc3.x and XFS. I then followed a suggestion to use gcc2.96 and the problem went away with regards to the XFS issue. I was having problems with the wireless device (WUSB11 v2.6) however and that was a showstopper. The problem was the kernel paging deal I mentioned. The STOCK Mandrake 9.0 2.4.19 kernel that came with the install (precompiled) was fine with regards to XFS, it was only when I tried to do what I always do and rebuild my own kernel with the default 9.0 gcc (3.2) that things went south. I have gotten my WUSB11 working after much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth but I am not sure the kernel paging issue is really fixed or if it just decided not to rear its head with my last restart. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche.
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