I know that appletalk module is not included in RHEL 4 and therefore not included in CentOS 4.
RHEL 3/CentOS 3 had them in kernel-[smp-]unsupported
Is there a way to get the module loaded in CentOS 4.1 or do I have to compile a kernel from source?
Thanks
Craig
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 16:52 -0700, Craig White wrote:
---- OK - lo and behold, I find unsupported stuff in centosplus (thanks guys - you are really good)
when I installed them, they are placed in a separate tree and that confuses me...
[root@srv1 etc]# ls -l /lib/modules/ total 48 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 18 17:56 2.6.9-11.106.unsupported drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 18 17:57 2.6.9-11.106.unsupportedsmp drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 16 21:23 2.6.9-11.EL drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 16 21:24 2.6.9-11.ELsmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 19:58 kabi-4.0-0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 20:24 kabi-4.0-0smp
so my guess is that I have to cp -R /lib/modules/xxx.unsupportedsmp/kernel/net/appletalk \ /lib/modules/xxxELsmp/kernel/net
and then I suppose I have to mkinitrd and reboot to make the copied Appletalk module work?
Am I missing something simpler?
Craig
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 18:07 -0700, Craig White wrote:
It is a new kernel ... unlike the RHEL-3 kernel (where they left stuff enabled and removed it from the kernel) in RHEL-4 they turned everything off ... so there is no way to turn it on except to recompile the whole kernel with everything on. We did not want to name it the same thing as the old kernel, so you have another kernel in grub to boot from.
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 21:44 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
---- when I went to /boot and did a mkinitrd, I saw the new boot images and figured it out. Obviously the entries were in grub.conf too.
In my case, that wasn't entirely helpful because I have to do the mkinitrd stuff for the old megaraid driver and I probably should just get the kernel code for the appletalk module and make the appletalk and megaraid modules for each new kernel myself
Anyway, I 'hope' that I don't have to rebuild megaraid.ko that I compiled with 2.6.9-11.ELsmp for 2.6.9-11.106.unsupportedsmp as that would double the effort. I will know soon enough. I am about to put the new floppy drive into this case, button it all back up and start it up again.
Thanks for all your efforts - the 'unsupported' in centosplus was a very nice touch. Considering that and the i586 support, you guys seem to go the extra mile.
Craig
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 21:44 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
---- OK - this is turning into a hassle now - something in kernel-2.6.9-11.106.unsupportedsmp is conflicting with the megaraid module that I am building which I can make work with the smp (and the up) version of the standard 2.6.9-11.EL kernel.
I removed all versions of kernel-[smp-]-devel and then did a yum install of the new ones...
yum --enablerepo=centosplus install kernel- devel-2.6.9-11.106.unsupported kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.106.unsupported
and then built the appropriate megaraid.ko for each and moved the megaraid.ko into their respective /lib/modules/kernel-2.6.9-11.106.unsupported [smp]/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid directory and did the mkinitrd and replaced the initrd created by the install of these unsupported kernels and they begin to load and break down in a panic (they actually get started since they do see the RAID drives but they break shortly thereafter).
I can boot the 2.6.9-11.EL[smp] kernels that I created in much the same way, but not the unsupported SMP or UP
Is there any sort of instruction for me to get the appletalk module source and build it myself as a module for the standard 2.6.9-11.EL [smp] ?
Thanks
Craig
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