[CentOS] unsupported modules on CentOS 4

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Fri Aug 19 02:44:59 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 18:07 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 16:52 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> ----
> 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 at 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
> 

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.
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