Re: fedora-legacy-list Digest, Vol 13, Issue 29

[Damian Menscher <menscher uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Wendell Dingus wrote:

> Oops, I apologize. Someone else here installed it and did use a driver disk. 
> I've since installed the latest legacy kernel, made an initrd using megaraid 
> and rebooted successfully. It's up and going using the megaraid driver now 
> and appears at least to be fine. If I understand correctly though, megaraid2 
> is based on 2.x driver code and the 1.x stuff isn't near as good. Is that 
> accurate? I downloaded the latest 2.x version from LSI's FTP site but it 
> fails to compile. There is a src.rpm available from Dell as a DKMS(?) module 
> which I hadn't even previously heard of. I'm not having a lot of luck 
> figuring out what that is or how to work with it, yet... Any suggestions 
> would be appreciated. Thanks!

The recent RHEL3 kernels contain megaraid2, so perhaps you should just 
recompile a RHEL3 kernel.src.rpm?

Damian Menscher
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