Well, here is my list of bugs, in case they were not reported before, and in case these are not Upstream problems. Any suggestions about fixing them would be welcome.
1) Under GNOME (I have KDE installed too): I am logging in as a user, and have kget and korgac to at start up programs, under Sessions and often their icons show up on the left (sometimes one above the other), instead of showing up on the right, as they are supposed to.
2) /sbin/ programs are not in the path! (it may be not a bug, I am relatively new to GNU/Linux).
3) Possible CentOS bug, not Upstream. The driver for my modem (ftp://ftp.allieddata.com/Public/Product_Info/Analog_Modems/Tornado_562-SII/Drivers/Linux/Linux.zip), fails to install. The tar.gz and rpm both fail, and I will provide the output of the rpm installation:
[root@localhost hsfmodem-7.18.00.02oem-1.i386.rpm.zip_FILES]# rpm -ivh hsfmodem-7.18.00.02oem-1.i386.rpm warning: hsfmodem-7.18.00.02oem-1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5dfbf7dc Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:hsfmodem ########################################### [100%] Conexant HSF softmodem driver, version 7.18.00.02oem
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When reporting a problem for the first time, please send us the file generated by "hsfconfig --dumpdiag".
No pre-built modules for: RedHat-5 linux-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 i686-SMP
Trying to automatically build the driver modules... (this requires a C compiler and proper kernel sources to be installed)
WARNING: the kernel version () defined in /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5/build/include/linux/version.h does not match the currently running kernel (2.6.18-8.1.1.el5) The cause of this problem is an incorrect kernel source path. Please check that /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5/build points to the right tree. The cause of this is usually a missing or unconfigured kernel source tree (and sometimes an incorrect directory or symbolic link).
However, proper /boot/config-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 was found.
Building modules for kernel , using source directory /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339. Please wait...
ERROR: Module build failed! Please examine the log file "/tmp/hsfconfig-buildlog.txt" to determine why. error: %post(hsfmodem-7.18.00.02oem-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
[root@localhost hsfmodem-7.18.00.02oem-1.i386.rpm.zip_FILES]#
The /tmp/hsfconfig-buildlog.txt is:
(cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339 && make "CNXT_KERNELSRC=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339" "M=/usr/lib/hsfmodem/modules" clean) make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339' rm -rf *.o GPL/*.o *.ko GPL/*.ko *.mod.c GPL/*.mod.c .*.cmd GPL/.*.cmd .tmp_versions /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfosspec.mod
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfserial.mod
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfengine.mod
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfpcibasic2.mod
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfmc97ich.mod
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfmc97via.mod
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfmc97ali.mod
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfmc97ati.mod
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfmc97sis.mod
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339/.tmp_versions/hsfsoar.mod Unable to determine version of kernel source directory /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686-cnxttmp12339 make: *** [check_kernelver] Error 1
BTW, why the kernel was mentioned as SMP ("RedHat-5 linux-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 i686-SMP")?
My system is a Pentium III 1 GHz / 1 GB RAM.
Thanks in advance.