On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Ronald KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> I run 2.4.26, the current Slackware kernel. What is the current
> 2.6.n kernel status?
Take your favorite FTP client to
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ . There's a file
LATEST-IS-2.6.7 .
> It is written very differently,
Not very differently, but differently enough that it breaks lots of
things.
> and no previous driver will work,
Few of them will.
> how is the development of all of the drivers we need coming along?
I'm running SuSE 9.1 + kernel 2.6.7 on my laptop (Thinkpad T40), and made
its wireless adapter (Intel Pro/Wireless 2100) work with the driver at
http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ . So it does what I need.
Well, I was running fine until I broke it. Now the SuSE-blessed kernel
boots fine, but I can't yet compile one that works (and I have in the
past).
> Are the drivers still stored as gziped object files?
Well, they become object files after you compile the source, and I suppose
you could gzip them. Oddly, they're named *.ko not *.o .
> Can they still be installed and removed from the running kernel etc?
Yes. They act just as before.
> I don't want tt experiment, I want to change over when everything is
> ready for me. I create more than enough grief for my self without
> experimenting.
That's what an additional partition is for.
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