kernel-sourcecode

[Warren Togami]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:56:29PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
>>in FC2 you ALREADY cannot use kernel-sourcecode for building modules
>>against so the change is a lot smaller than you make it out to be.
> 
> 
> Eh?  The funny thing is that I did with FC2 and results even
> worked. :-)  It even surprised me that this went so smoothly
> when I expected hiccups.  It does not mean that hiccups would
> not show up elsewhere but "cannot" seems to be a bit strong.
> 
> To make that concrete attached are a spec file and two, referenced
> in it, pieces for a support of an AC97 "windmodem" built-in into
> my wife's Acer TM230 laptop.  The required rest can be had from
> ftp://ftp.smlink.com/linux/unsupported/slmodem.2.9.7.tar.gz
> No problems with building kernel modules for that on FC2 just
> by rebuilding this rpm.
> 

Do you realize that slmodemd has the optional "ALSA mode", which allows 
you to use your modem with ALSA's snd-intel8x0m module and no additional 
kernel modules?  You only run "slmodemd -a" and it works.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com