[KLUG Members] 2.4.22 On The Verge

[Bruce Smith]

> > > > Did you get the RH RPM's running on something anyway (without LVM)?
> > > I don't have anything that doesn't use LVM, except in VMware, and I
> > > don't think VMware is self-hosting. :)
> > I installed the 2.6-test4 RPM on my laptop and gave it a try. 
> > (non LVM)   I also upgraded all the other packages in 
> >   http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/
> > Upon boot there were a ton of errors about USB.  Testing shows my USB
> > mouse worked in X, but usb-storage does NOT work (w/USB memory stick).
> > Log seems to show that hotplug is not working.
> 
> That stinks, use USB storage all the time.

I tried again, figuring I'd manually modprobe usb-storage.
Nope, it still doesn't see the USB memory stick.  :-(

> > Then there is an error that it can't mount my reiserfs partition -
> > reiserfs not supported in this kernel (non critical, so it continued).
> 
> Strange.  But reiserfs is always strange.

reiserfs seems to be in the kernel-unsupported RPM, which I didn't
install.  I'd rather have the mount fail, than have it trash that
partition.

> > XF86 fired up fine.  (going back to original XF86 Nvidia driver, not 
> > the custom one downloaded from nvidia.com)
> > Gnome couldn't load the (APM) battery applet.
> 
> What!

My laptop supports APM, and that applet crapped all over itself.
(works fine in 2.4)

> > I played a wav file, and was pleasantly surprised to see my former
> > 2.4-ALSA setup worked fine, without anything extra needed by 2.6.
> > (the only good thing I found)
> 
> Nice.

I just tried PCMCIA.

Inserting a serial PCMCIA modem fails.  It can't find the serial_cs
module.  

The Orinoco wireless card _seems_ to work.  At least no errors in the
log, and the light comes on.  I don't have a WAP here to test it with.

> > Then I tried running vmware-config.pl ... LOL!  :-)
> > It hangs trying to UNLOAD VMware (making sure it's not running).
> > According to "ps", it's hanging on a "modprobe -r parport_pc".
> > No problem, I'll just kill the modprobe and let it continue.
> > Well, "kill" doesn't work, either does "kill -9"!  
> > In fact, after that, a "lsmod" hangs cannot be killed with a "-9"!
> > After that, shutdown fails and requires a power-off.
> 
> Right, in 2.6.x you can't unload modules anymore; at least not by
> default.  So it may take awhile for VMware to retool for it.

Say what?  You can't unload modules in 2.6?!?!?

> > Then I went into my laptop's BIOS.  The parallel port was turned off, so
> > I turned it back on and tried again.  Then vmware-config.pl worked as
> > expected - it didn't hang and aborted trying to compile modules.  :-)
> 
> But this time module unload completed?  Although they probably never
> loaded int the first place.

I don't know if the module unloaded, but the script didn't hang.

> > (error in structures with missing members)
> 
> Of course.

Expected.

> > Not looking good!  :-)
> 
> Nope.
> 
> >     I'll bring it tonight if you want to see.
> 
> Won't be there, unfortunately.

You're not missing much.  :-)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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