Upgrading kernel

[John Seth]

My suggestion would be to use "M"... which means "Module". The less you use w/ "Y" the smaller your kernel will be and the less memory resident drivers, etc will be loaded at boot.  Using modules is always best, in my opinion, unless you have hardware that's always present, since with modules, you can enable or disable them at will, which I personally think is best with USB.  Others here may have other suggestions though.

    - Tony

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: shipdadip 
  To: nflug at nflug.org 
  Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:19 PM
  Subject: Re: Upgrading kernel


  ok update, I've managed to recompile the 2.4.1.8 kernel(doing it now) with Dell laptop support, however for the USB options for the Ethernet adapter the No was an avaliable option and M was an avaliable option but Y was not.  Any suggestions?
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: shipdadip 
    To: nflug at nflug.org 
    Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:04 PM
    Subject: Re: Upgrading kernel


    Yes that's what I meant, I meant I enabled network support in the kernel confing I was modifying and planning to install.  Ok, actually, yes I just looked and I am using kernel 2.4.18.  How do I enable USB-Ethernet adapter support?  Also when I was doing make xconfig on the 2.5 kernel there was an option for Dell laptop support, I think I need this also cuz i have no sound.  Ok so new question, how do I reconfigure this kernel?


      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: John Seth 
      To: nflug at nflug.org 
      Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:11 PM
      Subject: Re: Upgrading kernel


      You have to enable network support in the kernel config you're modifying.  Also, you're going from Kernel 2.2 to 2.5.1? I'm running Kernel 2.4.18 on my slackware box with tons of USB support. 2.4.19 is the latest 2.4.x stable version, and 2.5.x is a beta version of the kernel.  If you're going to upgrade the kernel, make sure you update any dependencies with it, like gcc. Latest beta kernel is 2.5.48... Check out kernel.org's website for info.

      You could also upgrade your system using Slackware's 2.4.x kernel from their 8.1 distro. That'll give you alot more USB ability than 2.2.x kernels.  I'm running 2.4.18 with no problems, including using a USB 250M Zip drive when my tape drive failed.

      If you still go with a 2.5.x kernel, make sure you go thru the config from start to finish. Depending on where you got your kernel source, it may config with default kernel values without the modified kernel that came with Slackware.  Hence, you may lose things like being able to read FAT/FAT32 partitions, or load certain kernel modules. Networking support is part of your kernel configuration, not your system configuration.

         - Tony

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: shipdadip 
        To: NFLUG 
        Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 5:17 PM
        Subject: Upgrading kernel


        hi all,
           I'm runnning Slackware 8.1, I'm trying to upgrade the kernel because I want to have USB-Ethernet adapter support so I ca go on the internet.  wWhen I do make xconfig the option to enable USB adapter support is greued out, it says I first have to enable networking support, I'm positive it's enabled, I've even disabled it and reboot and than re-enabled it but I still can't choose the USB-adapter option.  I currently have a 2.2 kernel. trying o upgrade to 2.5.1.  Can anyone help?  I hope I was clear, if not let me know.
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