> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, U. P. wrote: > > > Before couple of months i installed RH 7.1, downloaded motorola SM56 linux > > drivers, and surfed the web. few months later, i bought RH 7.2 but when > > i tried to installed those drivers again, they didnt work, the > > installation ran smooth no errors, but it didn't work > > What didn't work? > > What did you do and what was the result? > > Have you managed to load the modules from those drivers? >
There was a discussion here not so long ago about this driver. As far as I remember this is a binary without source. Others too were not been able to use it with 2.4/7.2. There was a suggestion to wrap the driver with a 2.4 kernel wrapper but no code? The list archive (and google) should reveal more details. > > (i think its because of the new ext3 file system, bot no, i installed > > it again with ext2 but it didnt work either, i also tried to > > down-grade the kernel, and didnt work either...). > > Downgrading the kernel may be a bit drastic step, considering the fact > that you are downgrading to 2.4.<very low> . However, it should satisfy > those drivers, to the best of my humble understanding. > > What errors did you get? > > > after little thinking i decided to switch back to 7.1 andwait until the new > > drivers will come out, i started the installation and the something like: > > > > " A partition type (0) is exist, this version of RH dont support zero > > partitions, this probaly caused by another OS partitioning program, > > try to use it to fixthe problem" > > > > and this occured after i even _DELETED_ the linux partition(s), the > > same happend when i tried to install RH 6 and then upgrade to 7, the > > only expection is in 7.2 which works correctly. > > > > how is your hard disk partitioned? > > The output of 'fdisk -l ' could help > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen /"\ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl email: shaulka(at-no-spam)bezeqint.net Please substitute (at-no-spam) with an at - @ - character. (at-no-spam) is meant for unsolicitate mail senders only. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
