I'll check out lsmod and see what I'm using vs what's enabled, that's a good idea. For some reason I didn't think that far. I tried to copy my .config from the 2.6.18 kernel, but I might have forgotten to. I would switch distro's but I'm studying the the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam, so I'd like to stick with 100% Red Hat. Although recompiling my kernel isn't a very good way to do that, but I did buy it to study from so I should at least stick with it for a while.
-Peter On 8/8/07, Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if it gives you kernel panics then you've forgotten to compile something... > take a look at the modules your base 2.6.18 is loading (lsmod) write them > down and search them in the actual kernel. be sure you compile them (as > modules or integrated into the kernel), and also be sure you have the initrd > if you're going to compile processor, acpi, root filesystem, dma controller > and that you have these base modules inside the initrd. > for you the best choice is to search into the redhat repository for newer > kernels, and best of it, i think that you should switch to fedora 8, instead > of rhe5, if you don't really need it, cause you're bond to them for a > looooooot of packages. and compiling external things (ati drivers/ nvidia > drivers for example) is very troubling. so, if you're using a desktop and > not using it for real enterprise thigs i would suggest you that you should > do a backup of your data and switch to either: fedora 8, suse 10.2 (10.3 > almost out - this is suggested if you want simple linux install), > kubuntu/ubuntu (kde/gnome - also suggested for a good starter distro) or > gentoo (if you want to understand more about linux and if you want an almost > universal - up-to-date - no versioning disto - yep gentoo doesn't have a > version, but only some profiles that are being updated from time to time, > basically of use flags). red-hat-enterprise and suse enterprise are some non > free linux distros that you pay, that you cannot use at best if you don't > have hw fully supported by them, that you cannot easily update with new > features/packages and that cause you a lot of problems, mainly in amd64 > configuration. i wasn't able to use at all my amd64 on amd64 system before > 2.6.17 kernel, i was able to use my wireless network card functional from > 2.6.18 and with wpa from 2.6.21, i had to get 2.6.18 to get acpi work for > some problems in the bios table and so on. if you experience hw > compatibility on a linux box it is not good to use a distro that gives you > aches when updating as rhle5. > and i think that most people agree with me for that. > > > 2007/8/8, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Thanks for the instructions. I'm about to try bcm43xx-fwcutter on the > > firmware you suggested. As for your other questions, I'm running Red > > Hat Enterprise 5 Desktop and Workstation, and my kernel is 2.6.18. > > Being Red Hat, it's very hard to recompile the kernel and get it to > > work. I've gotten it to compile, but I'm having trouble with kernel > > panics when I boot with my new kernel. I could live with that if my > > wireless card worked in this kernel version :). The error right before > > the kernel panic is about svm_ something, if that makes sense to > > anyone. > > > > -Peter > > > > On 8/8/07, Beso < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 2007/8/8, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I tried bcm43xx-fwcutter and and some kind of bcm43xx-softmac-sa > > > > package that I read about on a forum. The softmac thing had some > > > > compile time errors that looked like coding bugs. bcm43xx-fwcutter > > > > seemed to work, it extracted the firmware, I did make installfw, and > > > > then while modprobe bcm43xx didn't give me any errors, it also didn't > > > > show up on iwconfig. I didn't see anything else on google. > > > > > > it's very strange for softmac to give compile errors. maybe it gives you > > > warnings and then continue to compile, but these aren't great stuff. if > it > > > gives you errors then the kernel wouldn't be compiled at all... > > > > > > may i know what your pc is and what distro are you using and in which > > > profile/version? it may a be of help to point you to right direction. > the > > > instruction for making the bcm work that i have given are pretty general > and > > > quite working for all distros, but sometimes there may happen to need > > > something else to do. > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > -- > dott. ing. beso -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
