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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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