Hi all.
I currently have to add some drivers during the installation process for CentOS 4.4 (I mus use this release). As I've heard I need first to compile the drivers under the same kernel which will be used during install time. What should I do then? Could anyone provide a link to an appropriate howto?
With regards, R.
Rafa³ Radecki wrote:
Hi all.
I currently have to add some drivers during the installation process for CentOS 4.4 (I mus use this release). As I've heard I need first to compile the drivers under the same kernel which will be used during install time. What should I do then? Could anyone provide a link to an appropriate howto?
One question: why 4.4? RHEL 4.6 was out and in use were I was working in '06, on their distro CDs.
mark
Hmm, it is a dedicated distribution with proprietary software :|
2009/10/31 mark m.roth@5-cent.us
Rafa³ Radecki wrote:
Hi all.
I currently have to add some drivers during the installation process for CentOS 4.4 (I mus use this release). As I've heard I need first to
compile
the drivers under the same kernel which will be used during install time. What should I do then? Could anyone provide a link to an appropriate
howto?
One question: why 4.4? RHEL 4.6 was out and in use were I was working in '06, on their distro CDs.
mark-- When was the pleistocene? Around 1.8 million years ago, til about 10K years ago. What era are we in now? Trouble.
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Rafa³ Radecki wrote:
2009/10/31 mark m.roth@5-cent.us
Rafa³ Radecki wrote:
I currently have to add some drivers during the installation process for CentOS 4.4 (I mus use this release). As I've heard I need first to
compilethe drivers under the same kernel which will be used during install time.
What should I do then? Could anyone provide a link to an appropriate
howto?
One question: why 4.4? RHEL 4.6 was out and in use were I was working in '06, on their distro CDs.
Hmm, it is a dedicated distribution with proprietary software :|
What is CenOS, except RHEL with the proprietary parts removed. Therefore, I assume that CentOS 4.6 was out in by the fall of '06, which was the point I was making.
And *please* don't top post - it kills the thread of the conversation. Trimming is good, though.
mark
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:30:07PM -0400, mark wrote:
Rafa³ Radecki wrote:
Hmm, it is a dedicated distribution with proprietary software :|
What is CenOS, except RHEL with the proprietary parts removed. Therefore, I assume that CentOS 4.6 was out in by the fall of '06, which was the point I was making.
Some vendors claim that updating your distro will void your warranty/ support contract. I had one vendor which claimed that updating the kernel to patch a serious security hole would void our contract (though they did ''allow'' us to update the rest of the distro).
It turns out, the vendor didn't want to allow users to update the kernel because they used the nvidia X11 drivers, and they didn't want to walk users through the process of updating those (which at the time were linked to the kernel version). Oy! If I'd known that, I could have patched our kernel much sooner, since the nvidia install is pretty trivial. Grr, vendors can be frustrating sometimes.
Anyway, this story does have a bit of a point: for the OP, you might want to check with your vendor on the exact reason why they don't want you to update. It might be something you can work around.
--keith
Keith Keller wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:30:07PM -0400, mark wrote:
Rafa³ Radecki wrote:
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Some vendors claim that updating your distro will void your warranty/ support contract. I had one vendor which claimed that updating the kernel to patch a serious security hole would void our contract (though they did ''allow'' us to update the rest of the distro).
It turns out, the vendor didn't want to allow users to update the kernel because they used the nvidia X11 drivers, and they didn't want to walk users
<snip> ARGH!!!
That's what I have on my personal machine at work, as do others. About a month, month and a half ago, an admin (now rolled off) upgraded a bunch of things on my machine without warning me. That included the nvidia driver... and the new one did *not* support my older card, and that was another hour to downgrade it, and fight X to get twinview working again.... I just fought that going up to 5.4 on a machine I was building, and had to build the bloody drivers.
I have no intention of buying nvidia cards, if I can help it.
mark
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