Thre was a pretty major stuff up in the RedHat camp re non-GPL modules ( remember 2.6.8/9 and all that? ), such that FC5 release was in the same situation. The vanilla 2.6.16 kernel from www.kernel.org does *NOT* suffer from this, as I'm using it ( on FC5 ) with the proprietary ATI display drivers. It may be an idea to roll your own kernel and see if that works any better.
I haven't used the cisco vpn drivers ( almost bad enough to make you want to find an M$ machine! ) on an SMP kernel, so can't comment on that side of things. I did have to reconnect well over 20 times a day when using them, though, and ping times to Norway were only 300ms at the time. Bring back openvpn! Steve On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:11:03 +1200 Adrian Mageanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Hadley, > > Indeed you need a license to work with it, the admin from the remote > network provided it for me part of my contract with them. > > Yes, it does need a compilation against kernel sources but during the > un-install / install process required by every kernel upgrade I had no > compilation error. The service component starts ok but the client part > doesn't want to connect to the remote router. The answer is: > > Initializing the VPN connection. > Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client > Reason: Failed to establish a VPN connection. > There are no new notification messages at this time. > > And no more log entries. > > > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:54 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: > > On Thursday 06 April 2006 21:41, Adrian Mageanu wrote: > > > I use cisco vpn from here > > > http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/vpn/client/4_6/uglinsol/ind > > >ex.htm to connect to a remote network. > > > > > > It used to work ok until I upgraded the kernel to > > > 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4smp.i686 > > > > > > Although the documentation says that the cisco client does not work with > > > SMP kernels, I had no problem runing it on all previous kernel versions > > > from 2.6.11-1.1369 through 2.6.15-1.1833, all SMP versions. > > > > > > The workaround is I boot the box in the previous kernel and works. > > > > > > What is different in the latest kernel release from the previous? Is > > > there a way to fix this? Other than the above mentioned. > > > > I see that that client involves a loadable module. I can't find the license > > so > > don't know whether it is proprietary or not. If it is the following might > > relate. > > > > On Arch Linux (which is quite bleeding edge) recently the Intel modem > > drivers > > (intel536ep and intel537) stopped working due to a change in the kernel > > regarding loading non-GPL modules. > > > > I can't find a lot about it on the web but this was the reason quoted on > > the > > list "The drivers no longer compile against 2.6.16, as the serial interface > > in 2.6.16, only links with drivers distributed under the GPL." > > > > Since then the kernel change has been reversed and the modules work again. > > > > Maybe this relates to your problem? > > > > hads > >
