> In addition to those you mention there are:- > Two sorts from Conexant. hcf and hsf - drivers from Linuxant. > Smart Link. slmodem > Motorola. sm56
Thanks! > Winmodems on > POTS is even worse. It's a miracle it ever works at all. True, dito for adsl. But, losemodems make no difference to hardmodems as far as whistling over telephone copper is concerned. The outside end is the same. > Indeed, but so far as I am aware _all_ Linux distros are a bit lacking in the > QA dept. s/Linux/OSS/ But your point was to recompile a kernel from scratch just to make sure that the headers match the kernel on your $DISTRO. That sucks and is complete overkill. I'm certain that at least SuSE hasn't had a mismatch in at least 5 years, if ever, and I don't think other reputable distros are any different. > I have had a very satisfactory degree of success rebuilding > the kernel and its modules from scratch so that it all links together without > problems. What's the technical reason for a complete recompile if the driver source is designed to compile as long as the kernel headers are in gcc's path? > On a modern machine If only I had one... > May be, but it's really very valuable to be able to recompile driver sources > so that the linking loader can do its thing without screwing up. The modem > driver writers are well aware of that fact. Yes. And that when supplying binary packages, one has to supply one for each X Y and Z. Too much trouble to go into. But, please tell me what that has to do with rpm? Nicks answer was spot on. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
