Re: slink-only system, kernel version ceiling?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> > At some point in the not-too-distant future I'm going to brave the wild
> > and wooly world of kernel recompilation. (mostly for sound card and
> > at some point a zip drive) If my system is still slink-only is there some
> > kernel version beyond which I should not try to go? (in other words,
> > is slink compatible with all the recent stable kernel versions out there?)
>
> Definitely upgrade your modutils, no kidding.
Not necessarily - Debian 2.1r3 comes with modutils 2.1.121, which works
perfectly with every post-2.0 kernel I've tried, which includes
* 2.1.125 -> the end of 2.2.0pre9 (which is the end of 2.1)
* 2.2.0 -> 2.2.13
* 2.3.25 (haven't tried anything newer)
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@creighton.edu
"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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