Recently, my father (who is an OS/2 die-hard) purchaced a SCSI CDRW (Yamaha) which he could not get to work. After two weeks of trying, he asked me to see if I could get it to work in my Linux box. Now, my linux box is based on Red Hat 7.2 and has been updated to kernel 2.4.17 - nothing out of the ordinary. Usually, I custom build my kernels with only the things needed for the hardware in the particular box being used. This time I chose to use the RedHat config scripts contained in the RedHat supplied kernel sources (I used the 2.4.9 sources obtained via the up2date utility) and did a make oldconfig. Yes, this resulted in a rather large vmlinuz image and a downright HUGE /lib/modules/2.4.17 but the end result was very surprising.
In less than one hour I was able to install the hardware, have the system detect it (kudzu), read /var/log/messages to see which module the Adaptec SCSI card needed, modprobe the module and add a line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (modprobe aic7xxx), reboot and mount a CD. Then I linked /dev/cdrom2 to /dev/scd2, added a line to /etc/fstab and proceeded to burn a CD at 4x using Xcdroast. Oh, and I also removed the hardware again in that hour. I was impressed to say the least. Just thought I'd pass on this experience... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot". _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
