Hi,
I'm trying to get my ISA modem to work on CentOS 4.4, but I am having trouble. I have a stock installation of the CentOS 4.4, and did a yum upgrade to ensure everything is the latest, however, I can't seem to detect or see the ISA modem.
I remember back in the 2.2 kernel days, the need for isapnptools, however, from what I read that is supposed to already be included in the 2.6 kernel. When I check the /proc directory, I don't see a /proc/isa or /proc/isapnp that I would have expected to find.
I am relatively sure that the modem is a real modem (not a winmodem), but I don't understand why I can't even seem to locate it anywhere. I have manually set the jumpers on the modem to Com1, but that hasn't helped any either.
Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what
Thanks!
Eric
Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what
Nope. The kernel was built without isa support. There was a mailing list thread a while back (the exactly link escapes me) which explained how to rebuild with ISA support specifically, however the wiki (wiki.centos.org) contains the steps needed to build a custom kernel.
Support for ISA may have been built into the centosplus kernel by Johnny, but I honestly can't remember if he did that or not.
"Jim Perrin" jperrin@gmail.com wrote in message news:302ce8b50701251406w203a6a06k999b65050b6df77b@mail.gmail.com...
Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what
Nope. The kernel was built without isa support. There was a mailing list thread a while back (the exactly link escapes me) which explained how to rebuild with ISA support specifically, however the wiki (wiki.centos.org) contains the steps needed to build a custom kernel.
Support for ISA may have been built into the centosplus kernel by Johnny, but I honestly can't remember if he did that or not.
Thanks for the advice. I followed the instructions on the wiki to rebuild the kernel (still waiting for the kernel to finish rebuilding), but I was confused by one thing. The current kernel2.6.9-i686.config file shows the ISA option to be enabled. Wouldn't that be the default setting of the kernel then? I am running 2.6.9-42.EL. Wouldn't that imply that it is enabled on that kernel then? Is there a way I can check to validate that it isn't already enabled?
Thanks,
Eric
Eric B. spake the following on 1/25/2007 6:11 PM:
"Jim Perrin" jperrin@gmail.com wrote in message news:302ce8b50701251406w203a6a06k999b65050b6df77b@mail.gmail.com...
Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what
Nope. The kernel was built without isa support. There was a mailing list thread a while back (the exactly link escapes me) which explained how to rebuild with ISA support specifically, however the wiki (wiki.centos.org) contains the steps needed to build a custom kernel.
Support for ISA may have been built into the centosplus kernel by Johnny, but I honestly can't remember if he did that or not.
Thanks for the advice. I followed the instructions on the wiki to rebuild the kernel (still waiting for the kernel to finish rebuilding), but I was confused by one thing. The current kernel2.6.9-i686.config file shows the ISA option to be enabled. Wouldn't that be the default setting of the kernel then? I am running 2.6.9-42.EL. Wouldn't that imply that it is enabled on that kernel then? Is there a way I can check to validate that it isn't already enabled?
Thanks,
Eric
In your /boot directory is the config file that is generated when the kernel rpm was created. You will have one for every installed kernel.
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:45 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
Eric B. spake the following on 1/25/2007 6:11 PM:
"Jim Perrin" jperrin@gmail.com wrote in message news:302ce8b50701251406w203a6a06k999b65050b6df77b@mail.gmail.com...
Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what
Nope. The kernel was built without isa support. There was a mailing list thread a while back (the exactly link escapes me) which explained how to rebuild with ISA support specifically, however the wiki (wiki.centos.org) contains the steps needed to build a custom kernel.
Support for ISA may have been built into the centosplus kernel by Johnny, but I honestly can't remember if he did that or not.
Thanks for the advice. I followed the instructions on the wiki to rebuild the kernel (still waiting for the kernel to finish rebuilding), but I was confused by one thing. The current kernel2.6.9-i686.config file shows the ISA option to be enabled. Wouldn't that be the default setting of the kernel then? I am running 2.6.9-42.EL. Wouldn't that imply that it is enabled on that kernel then? Is there a way I can check to validate that it isn't already enabled?
Thanks,
Eric
In your /boot directory is the config file that is generated when the kernel rpm was created. You will have one for every installed kernel.
It looks like CONFIG_ISA is set in the latest kernels from upstream as a module.
ISA sound cards are not enabled.
BUT ... do yourself a favor and try to use a PCI card anyway :P
"Eric B." ebenze@hotmail.com wrote in message news:epb908$cn2$1@sea.gmane.org...
Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what
Apparently, the last bit of that sentence got cut off.... If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what packages must I ensure are installed? I have installed the kernel-devel package thru yum, but that doesn't seem to be enough - I am getting compilation errors both on a make clean, and a make bzImage or make rpm.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Eric
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