[PLUG] Redhat 7.3 2.6.9 kernel upgrade...
plug_0 at robinson-west.com
plug_0 at robinson-west.com
Fri Feb 25 03:28:02 UTC 2005
Quoting Alan <alan at clueserver.org>:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 13:06 -0800, plug_0 at robinson-west.com wrote:
> > It looks like I need the newer ndisutils to get the Realtek mini
> > pci 8180 Rev, 20 to work. That requires the 2.6.9 kernel from
> > what I can tell.
> >
> > I can't get modutils-3.0.1 from kernel.org to compile. I'm wondering
> > if I need to update my compilers?
> >
> > The ndiswrapper-0.12 says the hardware is detected and all, but
> > when I go to do the modprobe ndiswrapper I get a ton of
> > unresolved symbols errors.
> >
> > I got a 2.6.9 kernel with NFS root set to compile. Admittedly, I'm
> > wondering what some of the new stuff under the iptables section is.
> > It would be awfully nice to have an NFS root howto for 2.6 kernels.
>
> Redhat 7.3 uses the 2.4 kernels, not the 2.6 kernels. There are a bunch
> of things that you have to upgrade. If you are going to that trouble,
> why not upgrade to a later version of Redhat?
Going to that kind of trouble when doing NFS root is a lot of
trouble. You have to install the distribution you want to export
on the machine you want to export it to, or at least a machine
that has the same processor, etc. RealTek made Redhat 7.3
drivers, it is pathetically ridiculous that they don't work.
What is even more frustrating is that I got this card thinking
it's Linux compatible. I'm tempted to try Slackware 10 if I
have to get a newer Linux system. I ran into a web site that
said ndiswrapper and my card work under Slackware 10 and a
little more research suggested that Slackware 10 is 2.6 ready.
If there's a way to upgrade to get a Realtek 8180 chipset card
working it's worth doing, I'd rather not take the machine down
to do another hard drive installation of a newer Linux
distribution. That would be a royal pain in the neck. I've
never done NFS root of any 2.6 system let alone Fedora and
the 2.6 kernel has a lot of options that I don't know much
about. 2.6 systems are far more complex than their 2.4
predecessors. Besides, I'm worried that Fedora and Slackware
10, even without X, will run painfully slow on a 300 mhz
K6-2 system. Frankly, why do I need a Linux distribution
designed for modern Pentium 4's and Athlon XP's just to run
a Realtek 8180 wireless card?
It looks like I am going to have to take the machine down
and try to update with a newer version of Linux, if it
will take a newer version. Has anyone ever gotten
ndiswrapper to work on a 2.4 system with a RealTek 8180
chipset 802.11b wireless card?
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