Stan Koper wrote:
>
> But I'm not having any better luck trying to move from the 2.0.36 to 2.2.3
> kernel, using tar.gz files either. I've tried twice, and all I get are a
> bunch of extra files and directories, and no way to tell which is which. I
> think I wound up with a complete copy of 2.2.3 installed *inside* another
> copy of a 2.2.3 directory.
When you unpack a kernel tgz package in /usr/src , a couple
of different things can happen depending on where you
got the kernel. If you got it off of a suse site, it will usually
install it in a /usr/src/linux.2.2.3 directory. Whearas if you get
a standard kernel distribution, it will put it in /usr/src/linux.
If you get it in a numbered directory, then you need to make the
link /usr/src/linux to point to the kernel you want to use.
One of them should be assigned to be the current linux source.
Midnight Commander comes in real handy for seeing how all this works.
You can just delete off mistakes in unpacking with a couple of
keystrokes.
>
> I followed the listing provided earlier (see 6.0 Finally arrive) by W.D.
> McKinney, but after I did "ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.2.3 /usr/src/linux" and
> tried "cd linux", I got a message saying unable to locate the file or
> directory. Yet when I went into /usr/src/linux-2.2.3 I could clearly see
> the link from linux to linux-2.2.3
I believe it has to be cd /linux, don't forget the / :-)
>
> And since I can't seem to send output to the printer, I have to e-mail the
> file to myself and pick it up on another computer.
>
You might running into the problem of irqs switching around
for /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 in the new kernel.
Try a
cat textfile > /dev/lp0
or
cat textfile > /dev/lp1
and see which one gives output. The newer
kernel likes /dev/lp0 on irq7 and your soundcard
may be on this irq, and messing up the printer.
It is best to put your soundcard on irq5 for the
new kernel, that is changed in isapnp.conf and in
conf.modules.
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