quick setup

[Greg Alexander]

Wouldn't surprise me that some 2.4-specific code has slipped in.  Most
of the development work seems to be being done on 2.4, so I'm not sure
how well-tested 2.2 support is currently.

Is upgrading to 2.4 an option?

GREG

"J.R. Lillard" wrote:
> 
> right.  and i've tried all that.  compiling everything always results in
> a seg fault that i posted about yesterday.  as far as i can tell,
> however, my kernel is working fine.  i've always been dealing with mol
> 0.9.63.  and the kernel i've been compiling has been 2.4.18.  just for
> kicks, i compiled 2.2.21 this morning.  mol wouldn't even compile
> correctly.  it attempts to reference a function in the kernel headers
> called get_zeroed_page.  i looked and there's no mention of
> get_zeroed_page in the 2.2.21 kernel source anywhere.  so i'm guessing
> it's new to the 2.4 kernel.  i never saw anything saying that mol
> requires the 2.4 kernel though.
> 
> regardless, the only time i've gotten mol to work was with a precompiled
> 2.4.18 kernel and a binary distribution of mol that matched.  and even
> then the sheep_net module wouldn't load due to unresolved symbols
> leaving me without networking.  compiling allows me to load the modules
> without a problem, but like i said, mol just seg faults right away.  i
> thought maybe there was a distribution out there with working mol
> binaries i could try just to see it all work.
> 
> since i actually saw things work once (without networking of course) i
> have to think my setup on the mac side is okay.  i extracted a mac os
> rom file from the os 9.2.2 updated.  this rom file is version 8.7 and is
> not listed on the compatibility list on the mol website.  is it possible
> that there's something in the rom file causing the crash?  i've still
> got the 9.2.1 installer.  i might try it with that rom instead since
> it's actually listed on the compatibility chart as working.
> 
> Greg Alexander wrote:
> > "J.R. Lillard" wrote:
> >
> >>i've been trying to get mol working on a beige g3 running debian for a
> >>couple weeks now with no success.  i'm desparately wanting to get this
> >>working and i'm willing to do whatever it takes at this point.  i'll
> >>even switch to a different linux distribution.  i'm not tied to debian
> >>for any reason.  i just found that it was easy to install.  can anyone
> >>out there recommend a simple, quick way to get mol going with as little
> >>manual intervention as possible?  network installations of linux are
> >>preferable but as long as i don't *have* to install from a cd it should
> >>be okay.
> >>
> >>--
> >>J.R.
> >
> >
> > My understanding:
> >
> > 1.) Download Kernel Sources.
> > 2.) Download MOL Sources.
> > 3.) Compile all of the above.
> > 4.) Reboot w/ new kernel.
> > 5.) Install MOL.
> > 6.) Run MOL.
> >
> > MOL doesn't rely on much more than your kernel version, so changing
> > distributions shouldn't make much difference.
> >
> > GREG
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> J.R.
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