Whether these upgrade is to be done before upgrading kernel or will it
do if done after upgrade. How about modutils package. Is it necessary to
upgrade before hand. Whether it plays any role in making and installing
modules.
By upgrading these packages, will it affect working with old kernel, in
case of problem with new kernel.
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> Ravi Kumar Tenneti rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > I have not tried PPP after compiling to 2.4.1 but I
> > don't think you need any other pkgs.(This is only my
> > assumption)
> > Please update if you have got any info on this.
>
> This is taken from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes - see what you want to
> upgrade first and upgrade it. With older distros (redhat 6.2 say) you'd need
> to upgrade a lot of things - and with a newer distro (mandrake 7.2 say)
> modutils (and maybe one or two other packages) should do the trick.
>
> Current Minimal Requirements
> ****************************
>
> Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've
> encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently
> running, the suggested command should tell you.
>
> - Kernel modutils 2.1.121 ; insmod -V
> - Gnu C 2.7.2.3 ; gcc --version
> - Binutils 2.8.1.0.23 ; ld -v
> - Linux libc5 C Library 5.4.46 ; ls -l /lib/libc*
> - Linux libc6 C Library 2.0.7pre6 ; ls -l /lib/libc*
> - Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.9.9 ; ldd --version or ldd -v
> - Linux C++ Library 2.7.2.8 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libg++.so.*
> - Procps 2.0.3 ; ps --version
> - Procinfo 16 ; procinfo -v
> - Psmisc 17 ; pstree -V
> - Net-tools 1.52 ; hostname -V
> - Loadlin 1.6a
> - Sh-utils 1.16 ; basename --v
> - Autofs 3.1.3 ; automount --version
> - NFS 2.2beta40 ; showmount --version
> - Bash 1.14.7 ; bash -version
> - Ncpfs 2.2.0 ; ncpmount -v
> - Pcmcia-cs 3.0.14 ; cardmgr -V
> - PPP 2.3.10 ; pppd --version
> - Util-linux 2.9z ; chsh -v
> - isdn4k-utils v3.1beta7 ; isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version
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