Compiling kernel under F-7
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Jun 12 12:06:06 UTC 2007
Giancarlo del Rossi wrote:
> The kernel profile is strong relatived to the hw profile of the system
> and the feature that you use (file system, network topology etc, etc)
Thanks very much for your response.
I've a feeling my problems lie with the new disk driver setup,
using pata/scsi .
I'm not sure what one should include in the kernel .config for this.
>> There is a problem running the orinoco_usb driver module
>> with the distribution kernel.
>> (The kernel usually crashes when WiFi is started.)
>>
> What type of crash ??
It is a kernel panic,
with a display of register contents, etc.
Unfortunately this flashes by too fast to take down.
> Look here for the latest drivers and relatived problems.
I do have the latest orinoco_usb program, downloaded by
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/orinoco/branches/usb
> The orinoco linux driver (generally and wifi) have a nice documentation
> here :
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/documentation/
Thanks for the pointer.
I hadn't seen that.
Unfortunately, though, the author of the orinoco_usb comments
says that he ceased to run orinoco_usb in December 2006.
The version of orinoco_usb in use then (which I was using)
ceased to work with kernels later than 2.6.19 -
and these older kernels ceased to work, on this machine at least,
with Fedora-7.
The orinoco_usb source is somewhat separate from the main orinoco_cs source,
and is not included with the kernel sources.
It is very much a one-man operation by Pavel Roskin, I think.
>> So I am trying to compile a vanilla 2.6.21 kernel.
>> This actually seems to run OK,
>> but it waits for an extraordinary time
>> when it enters the Interactive phase.
>> What exactly is going on at that time?
>>
>>
> What do you explan for interactive phase ??
When the computer says:
Welcome to Fedora
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
As I said, there is a very long (possibly infinitely long)
pause at this point -
I think I woke the machine by typing 'I'
followed by more or less random characters.
But what exactly is the kernel doing at this point?
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Timothy Murphy
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