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Re: Installing an earlier kernel?



Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> Dumb question time, I'm sure. I've been running 2.2.15 for a while,
> but in a desparate effort to get a modem that works on this laptop
> before next Wednesday, I've built 2.2.12 (so I can run the damn
> Lucent binary winmodem driver).

You probably don't need to do that.  modprobe and insmod while whine
about the module, but if you use insmod -f on it, it'll probably work
fine.

> But if I 'make install' the kernel to put it on /dev/hda5 and then
> run lilo: everything seems "right"; /vmlinuz is a symlink to 2.2.12
> in the /boot directory; similarly, the other symlinks point to
> 2.2.12 tings., but /proc/version still says 2.2.15 is running. Huh? 
> What'd I miss.

Probably /etc/lilo.conf.  You can have multiple kernels mentioned
there, so edit it and rerun lilo.

(However, I'd try insmod -f first.  It'll probably work.  It seems to
for our Dell Inspiron 7500s, anyway, which use what I presume is the
same module.)



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