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[Jesse Jarzynka]

JJ Neff wrote:

>Unfortunately as hinted at before this is not Fedora specific.  I did as much
>screaming at my monitor trying to get a wireless nic to run on a laptop under
>Debian.  Everytime I tried to compile or install the source it didn't match my
>kernel by one character.  Then I'd find out that the version of kernel (from
>deb package) had no installable source (running testing).  I then couldn't get
>VMware to run due to kernel version being slightly different than source and
>then don't get me started on version of GCC.  Seems the kernel I was running
>had been compiled with gcc3.6 but I was running gcc 4 (default gcc in testing).
>Then I finally found a kernel that had been compiled with 3.3.5 and the gcc
>3.3.6 I was able to trick my machine into using (changing enough symlinks) was
>close enough. Now I'm practically afraid to reboot :-)  OK I made the change in
>Grub to boor old kernel by default.  I don't need cutting edge when there are
>bills to pay.  A couple folks on the #debian IRC make a very strong argument
>for sticking with 2.4 and I may do that.
> 
>I no longer want to compile kernels (thanks to a certain BOB M. on the list who
>got me used to using plain old kernels from packages- that just worked).
>
>JJN
>  
>
By the way, we got that gcc error when putting it on our Core 4 dump. 
Same thing about gcc being a different version than the kernel was 
compiled with. You have the option to do it anyways, which we did, and 
it seems to work just fine. You could try that if you want.
-- 
Jesse Jarzynka
Cyber Source
http://www.jessejoe.com/
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