Re: Kernel 2.6

On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 03:03, David Kuehling wrote:
> How did you boot? kernel-2.4.18 is too old, won't give you network

I used Knoppix-Terminalserver to boot from PXE. I ran QTparted to
configure my partitions and followed the manual procedures found at
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade to install the files and configure the system.

> For getting ethernet work, you need some kernel around 2.4.21. Also

The apt-cache search kernel-image returned the kernel of 2.4.18 as the
newest. I grabbed what I thought was the newest that I could.

> You might want to get yourself DVDs of the next version of Debian,
> Debian Sarge. It's currently labled "testing" (as apposed to "stable"),
> but the installer is very much more modern, and comes with more recent
> kernels. It also has detailed information about booting from USB-stick,
> via PXE etc. in the installation manual.

Booting from USB stick is still something that I would like to try. It
would be nice to have a boot device for Offline NT Password Recovery
(http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/) or knoppix-std. I seem to
suck at these manual methods though. I suppose practice makes perfect.

>
> David

Through all of the frustration, I was finally able to get Mandrake to
boot on the machine from CD. Apparently, the Lite-On DVD+RW external
USB2.0 has some flaw with the firmware that when your computer resets
the USB ports, the firmware will not reset without a power cycle. With
the Iomega USB2 CDRW, the device sees the reset signal and cycles the
firmware causing the device to initialize properly. You have to go
through a couple of extra steps to reload the CDROM driver, but it
works.

Mandrake works great on the box with only a couple of issues. In fact,
it works so well that I joined the Mandrake Club to get the PowerPack
edition to see if any of the commercial apps might take care of the
remainder of my issues (I also wanted the AMD64 version for my desktop
computer).

The only wireless that I have been able to get configured to work on the
machine is my Orinoco Gold card. It is not running sufficiently to be
able to run Kismet, but I am able to get out on the net with it. I have
not been able to get the internal wireless to work other than to turn on
the wireless indicator light. Network configuration only shows the e100
on eth0 and the Orinoco wlan on eth1.

Even with the screen saver turned off, the screen will begin to flicker
at a high rate of speed after a period of inactivity. This looks to be
a power save feature, but works whether on battery or external power.
It is annoying, but not a functional issue.

I have not been able to find sufficient documentation to install the
remainder of the Tablet/Transmeta utilities listed on the site. These
include longrun, fpi2002-0.3, tc1k-1.1 and fpitcal-0.2.tar.gz.

I admit that the problem is mostly my inexperience, but I have not been
able to find sufficient resources to guide me through the installation
of the files necessary to resolve these outstanding issues. Austin's
help has gone a long way in getting me familiar with the process. I
particularly appreciate the tip regarding the elimination of feedback
caused by the default volume settings being set to max.

Here is an itemized status list.

kernel 2.6.3-7mdk - success
screen rotation - not functioning
pen support - not functioning
internal wireless - not functioning
pcmcia support - success
usb support - success
kbd/mouse - success
audio - success
display - success
acpi - success

Let me know if there are other things out there that I should test and
provide results to the group for.
Received on Sun Jun 27 13:07:49 2004