Re: Linux Kernel Upwards-Compatibility Deficiencies

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:25:28 +0400 (MSD)


In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907150842060.11935-100000@cyberelk.elk.co.uk> Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, GERALD HOOPER wrote:

>> bus where the 2.0.36 kernel keeps resetting after a timeout. The 6.0
>> system appears to be better in this respect but using the 2.2.5-15
>> kernel gives rise to more serious problems namely that the parallel
>> port does not appear to have been configured in the kernel and I

> Try modprobe lp. The order of the /dev/lp* ports has shifted around, but
> you can make that compatible with 2.0.x via a kernel command-line option.
> See linux/Documentation/parport.txt for details.

Sometimes you also must supply options to parport_pc in /etc/conf.modules

> For the LS-120, you need the paride/pf modules I think.

For LS-120 you need ide-floppy module. And it must be loaded automatically
(along with fat & vfat). IMO something is screwed up due usage of System
Commander (I had this problem with LoadLin)... What `depmod -a' gives ?

P.S. Oh, and talking about depmod, insmod and so on. Are you have modutils
2.1.121 installed as suggested by http://www.kernelnotes.org/change22.html ?
You can download version for RedHat 5.2 from RedHat's updates site...

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