[TriLUG] 2.6 kernel

Nathan Conrad conrad at bungled.net
Fri Jan 9 10:32:57 EST 2004


Note that the drivers that come with the pcmcia-cs driver are not
compatible with 2.6. One must use the in-kernel PCMCIA drivers. But
the userspace portions are still inside the pcmcia-cs package. Also,
there is the big flaming war still going on between udev and
devfs. Everyone should use udev, but it is not supported by all of the
drivers. devfs should go away fairly soon.

-Nathan

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:26:20AM -0500, rasch at raschnet.com wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:12:36AM -0500, Daniel Monjar <daniel.monjar at na.biomerieux.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone worked with the 2.6 kernel yet?  I have a new install of 
> > Mandrake 9.2 at home, pulled down the 2.6 tarball and tried the install. 
> > It bombed out in one of the SCSI modules looking for some def's it couldn't 
> > find.  I know it is vague but I'm not at home right now to give the real 
> > error.
> 
> I've gotten the 2.6 to compile and load on gentoo, but i've been unable
> to get pcmcia-cs going so that i can use my wireless card.  I'm running
> a precompiled package of 2.6.0 from debian on my mythtv server; this
> required essentially now intervention on my part other than "apt-get
> install kernel-image-2.6.0-1-k7".  I only had to add a command to the
> boot parameters "ramdisk=4200" since the ramdisk was a bit too big for
> the 4MB default.
> 
> David
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