The reason that it will work and continue to work is because Kernel 2.4.x
incorporates the VFS layer. It really helps keep things sane.
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Evan James DeHate wrote:
> About the IP problem...
>
> Can you get more than one IP address from your ISP? Sounds like you can
> not.
>
> E. DeHate
>
> Antti Kaihola wrote:
>
> > I run a RedHat 7.1 kernel-2.4.2-2 patched with the latest LVM (logical
> > volume manager). I was happy to note that Win4Lin 3.0 not only works
> > perfectly with reiserfs as expected, but also on logical partitions in
> > LVM. This may be no surprise to others, but I had doubts because I
> > remember reading that previous versions of Win4Lin didn't work even with
> > reiserfs.
> >
> > I use the ALSA sound driver to enable full duplex with Speak Freely. I
> > haven't found an RPM installer for it, so it had to be compiled and
> > installed from the source tar.gz.
> >
> > I re-patched my LVM-enabled kernel with the win4lin patch successfully
> > by carefully following the win4lin pdf documentation. That was a smooth
> > and easy job. Then I proceeded to install win4lin, which was a success
> > as well. I selected the VNET method.
> >
> > Upon completion, the win4lin user installation automatically started a
> > fresh Win98 session for me. Here comes my first observation that might
> > be helpful for others.
> >
> > The IP Problem
> >
> > I ran winipcfg and noticed that win4lin had acquired a fresh IP address
> > from my cable internet provider. I could ping it from linux. On linux
> > ipconfig I still saw my old dynamic IP. If I recall correctly, I was
> > also able to ping that IP from win4lin. I also successfully pinged
> > another host out there on the internet from win4lin. However, outside
> > world had become unreachable from linux.
> >
> > I opened Win98 network settings and set my IP to 192.168.1.3 (on my home
> > network, my linux is 192.168.1.1 and my other workstation is
> > 192.168.1.2) and rebooted win4lin. It shut down and never came back. The
> > console window on which I had started the user installation was hung. As
> > root, I did a "killall -9 dosexec" and an "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0" which
> > I had to repeat to successfully reconnect to the internet.
> >
> > So it seems like win4lin "stole" the cable internet connection from
> > linux. Should I have used the Winsock method?
> >
> > The ALSA Problem
> >
> > The reason for the second issue I had isn't in win4lin itself. The
> > patched kernel uses its own module tree in /lib/modules/2.4.2-2win4lin,
> > and the ALSA modules need to be installed there. There were a couple of
> > glitches here.
> >
> > The ALSA Makefile.conf needs to know about the new kernel. Change
> > "moddir" and "kaversion" to "2.4.2-2win4lin" before re-installing ALSA.
> > If you compiled the kernel in its own directory (e.g.
> > /usr/src/patched-linux like the manual suggests), do not set
> > CONFIG_SND_KERNELDIR to point there. Fix the symlink /usr/src/linux
> > instead. I wonder why RedHat 7.1 doesn't create this link by default.
> >
> > You can now do a "make clean; make install", follow the rest of the ALSA
> > installation instructions and have a working sound subsystem again.
> >
> > The Resolution Problem
> >
> > I like to use win4lin in 1024x710 resolution. However, if I shut down
> > Win98 and start it again, the resolution is reset to 800x600. But if I
> > just restart (Start->Shut Down->Restart with or without pressing shift),
> > the resolution remains at whatever I chose. So it seems that it's not
> > Win98 itself changing the setting, it must be win4lin.
> >
> > This problem I have not solved. Anyone?
> >
> > I hope this "log" helps somebody. Lots of what I've read on the win4lin
> > mailing list have helped me.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Antti Kaihola
> > Ambitone Oy
> > Helsinki, Finland
> >
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