[PLUG] Kernels: 2.2 vs. 2.4?

Shannon C. Dealy dealy at deatech.com
Tue May 28 03:02:06 UTC 2002


On Mon, 27 May 2002, Geoff Burling wrote:

> On Mon, 27 May 2002, Paul Mullen wrote:
>
> > What's to be gained by having kernel 2.4 running on an ancient P166
> > laptop, as opposed to kernel 2.2? My old Gateway was running fine
> > (mostly) with Red Hat 7.0 (which installed kernel 2.2), but lost all
> > PCMCIA functionality when I upgraded to RH 7.2 (kernel 2.4).
[snip]
> As for your lost PCMCIA functionality, this may be due to a bug in
> kernel 2.4.9 -- which I believe ships with RH 7.2. Check the kernel
> release notes, & see if there is mention of a patch for this.

If it is 2.4.9, you may want to switch kernels, it had quite a few
problems as I recall, and the current stable kernel is 2.4.18 (unless
2.4.19 came out while I wasn't paying attention) which by all accounts I
have heard it is the most stable so far in the 2.4 kernel series.

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