OK. some follow-on questions. Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:45:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> I am trying to understand Suspend 2 and what I have to do to get it >> working in Centos 5. There is quite a bit for it at ATrpms: >> >> http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/hibernate-suspend2/ >> http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/kernel-suspend2/ >> >> The later is the kernel patches that they refer to at the Suspend2 >> website, so I don't have to recompile the kernel? >> > > No, that's the kernel already built for you. > I ASSuME there is nothing there that is RH specific and can be used with Centos. Afterall, I HAVE been doing this for madwifi... > But note: There is a new kernel in build and new kmdl for that kernel, > so you may want to hold off for 12-24h before installing. You can of > course already install the 8.1.4 kernel and then let yum update (with > the yum-plugin-kmdl) do its magic. > Yeah, I gathered something is afoot. I have 2.6.18-8.1.4. But when I included the ATrpms repo, it was trying to install 2.6.20 something (or something similar). >> I noticed that over at: http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/madwifi/ >> >> There are even rpms for BOTH Suspend2 and Madwifi (my situation, and I >> have been using the 'regular' madwifi parts for over a year now). >> > > Yes, all kmdls are built for the vendor kernel and the suspend2 kernels. > > >> So can anyone give me a bit of guidance/confirmation on setting up Suspend2. >> > > Point yum to ATrpms and do > > yum install kernel-suspend2 > > Boot into it and if you want some kmdl like madwifi do > > yum install madwifi madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r` > > If you want to do that before booting into the new kernel then replace > `uname -r` with the uname-r-to-be. > Now I am 'confused'. is your first reference of 'uname -r' exactly what I am to enter? Or is there something I am to put in its place even after a reboot? And what is 'uname -r' ????