Re: Upgrading Kernel - Redhat 8

[Rick Johnson <rjohnson medata com>]

On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 06:47, Dominic Marsat wrote:
> Hello,   I've just installed Redhat 8 and in order to get my DSL USB
> modem working I have to upgrade the kernel, adding various patches.
> I'm aware that the i386 kernel is used during the install in order to
> support most hardware - but are the correct kernels for my
> processor installed after this? The 'KDE Control Center' --> 'Linux
> Kernel Configurator' says that my architecture is i386?   I'm using a
> Duron 900Mhz so which kernel upgrades do I download from the website?
> i386, i586, i686, Athlon?? Only the source code for i386 is provided
> on the website. why?   The following packages are installed on my
> system:       $ rpm -qa | grep 'kernel'       kernel-2.4.18-14    
> kernel-utils-2.4-8.13     kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9    
> kernel-doc-2.4.18-14     kernel-source-2.4.18-14    
> kernel-debug-2.4.18-4     kernel-uml-2.4.18-14   Thanks, Dominic

Grab Athlon where you can, then i686, then i386 for the remaining
packages.

-Rick
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