Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Feb 1999 07:46:01 -0500 (COT) | From | el mono <> | Subject | Questions about the new kernel |
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After reading the documentation included in the 2.2.1 kernel release the following questions came to my mind:
1- Wich software must be recompiled against 2.2 kernel headers in order to get complete functionality (Changes)
2- How can i update my /dev files, some minor and major nodes have been changed. I know that i can use the devices.txt file but i will have to use mknod and there are too many devices. Is there a script or some other application to do this?
3- Do I still have to start kerneld at startup?. After reading kmod.txt i think that kerneld is obsolete cause the kernel will not call it anymore so load it will be a loss of memory but the Changes file in the modules section says:
As of 2.1.90-pre1, kerneld has been replaced by a kernel thread, kmod. See Documentation/kmod.txt for more information. The main user-level change this requires is modification to your init scripts to check for the absence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe before starting kerneld.
So should I start kerneld or not???
4- Every time I start a ppp session modprobe says:
Feb 21 01:28:09 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21 Feb 21 01:28:09 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26 Feb 21 01:28:10 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
But i have searched all over the kernel documentation and configuration and i can't see anything about this modules all i have seen is the line:
--- CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules.
After the ppp-support option. How can i get this modules???
I hope anybody can help me with this.
Thanks for your help.
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