Dag Wieers a écrit : > > Hi Niki, Hi Dag, > > I maintain an add-on repository for CentOS called RPMforge. Yeah, I just discovered - and configured - it. > > I'm very interested to look at the hardware issues you may have and see > how we can fix them using dkms modules. Of course, fixing and packaging > hardware drivers requires some investigation and guidance from you. Besides various ATI and NVidia cards, my main issue are wireless cards, namely: - RT2500 - RT2561 - Intel Pro 3945 I'm currently busy sinking my teeth into the CentOS docs, to get a firmer grasp of the Red Hat way to do things. This will take me a few days, maybe weeks. If not months. Right now for example, I have to rebuild my kernel - to enable one option (VESA) and disable one other (SMP, which causes the system to freeze with the rt61 driver). I know how to do this with Slackware and Debian, but I want to do it the proper Red Hat way with CentOS, which is essentially new to me. > > Let me know what I can assist you with. A very good thing to do would be to provide source RPM packages for various drivers. I don't know exactly if this is feasible, but let me give you an example. To install and configure an RT2500 wireless card with Debian, all you have to do is this: # apt-get install module-assistant # module-assistant prepare --> this fetches all the tools necessary for compilation # apt-get install rt2500-source # module-assistant auto-install rt2500-source --> builds the module as a .deb package and installs it for the running kernel # modprobe rt2500 # ifconfig -a Etcetera... dead easy. (Well, no, dead easy is Ubuntu that already *has* all these modules available by default :o/ ) On the other hand, there seem to be way less stock kernels around with CentOS than with Debian, so featuring binary modules would be somewhat easier to maintain. I don't know. Anyway, thanks for the kind offer of help. As we say in my native Austria: Eine Hand wäscht die andere. One hand washes the other one. Cheers, Niki -- Dyslexics have more fnu.