Subject: Re: Airport and 2.4 kernels
From: Brian Waite (bwaite@cspi.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 16:04:57 MDT
Is it a good idea to be using the 2.4.10 kernel as your next update?
I notice that 2.4.10 was followed quickly with 2.4.11 and even quicker with
2.4.12. In fact the sources for 2.4.11 at kernel.org have the file name
prepended with .DONTUSE. I imagine most of this is due to the VM rewrite that
came in the 2.4.10pre series. I am just a bbit afraid that the 2.4.10 is a
bit unstable. Would it be safer to jump to 2.4.9 or 2.4.12, or have you not
used the new VM series of kernels from Linus? I am just curious because I am
not sure production servers should be running 2.4.10. Is there signifgant
additional hardware support that requires a 2.4.10 kernel to work? Just
surious why 2.4.10 was chosen.
On Tuesday 16 October 2001 05:02 pm, you wrote:
> I suggest giving:
> http://www.terraplex.com/~dburcaw/kernel-2.4.10-12a.ppc.rpm
> a go. This is the kernel that will ship with 2.1 on Wednesday.
> (note: there is an issue with reiserfs support.. so if you want to
> play with that, I advise waiting for an update)
>
> On Tuesday 16 October 2001 01:14, you wrote:
> > I started playing around with it today, but didn't get far. I have
> > dburcaw's 2. Don't see a 0.45 PPC RPM yet...4.8-0.4c kernel installed,
> > and here's what I get when I simply try to insmod the airport driver:
> >
> > [david@mercury david]$ insmod airport network_name=my_airport_net
> > Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> > unresolved symbol dldwd_proc_dev_cleanup_Rf1a7e05f
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> > unresolved symbol dldwd_interrupt_Rd2d7dc06
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> > unresolved symbol dldwd_reset_R61f3acfa
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> > unresolved symbol hermes_reset_R412a37f0
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> > unresolved symbol hermes_struct_init_R8a246c75
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> > unresolved symbol dldwd_init_R19707c0d
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> > unresolved symbol dldwd_setup_R73b86424
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> > unresolved symbol dldwd_shutdown_Rda19d9bc
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-0.4c/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> > unresolved symbol dldwd_proc_dev_init_Rb8169fbb
> >
> > Any help with this would be most appreciated!
> >
> > David
-- Thanks Brian
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