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| Andreas Antonovic 2004-11-09, 5:53 pm |
| Can I use device drivers which are available for RH 9.0 also for Fedora Core
2 ?
Thanks
/A
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| Lenard 2004-11-09, 5:53 pm |
| On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:43:10 +0100, Andreas Antonovic wrote:
> Can I use device drivers which are available for RH 9.0 also for Fedora
> Core 2 ?
No, without downgrading to a 2.4 kernel
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Andreas Antonovic 2004-11-10, 5:50 pm |
| That's bad, because my harddisk is connected to a RAID controller. And for
this there is only a a RH 9.0 driver available. Any idea how to fix this ?
/A
"Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:pan.2004.11.09.21.14.52.654415@127.0.0.1...
> On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:43:10 +0100, Andreas Antonovic wrote:
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> No, without downgrading to a 2.4 kernel
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> --
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Lenard 2004-11-10, 5:50 pm |
| On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:28:51 +0100, Andreas Antonovic wrote:
> That's bad, because my harddisk is connected to a RAID controller. And
> for this there is only a a RH 9.0 driver available. Any idea how to fix
> this ?
Maybe, but without out knowing the hardware involved nobody can help.
Please specify the RAID controller make and model and any other
information that may be of help.
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Andreas Antonovic 2004-11-12, 5:50 pm |
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> Maybe, but without out knowing the hardware involved nobody can help.
> Please specify the RAID controller make and model and any other
> information that may be of help.
>
Yep, you're right.
The harddisk is connected to a a controller with the IT8212 chip from ITE
(EIO DM-8401R ATA133 card).
Linux drivers are availabe as said for RH 9.0.
When I try to install FC2 it asks for a driver disk for additional hardware
and after reading the disk with RH9.0 driver the card is also on the list,
but I cannot chose it from the hardware list. It is just ignored.
When I try the saem with RH9.0 it works perfect.
Any more ideas ?
Cheers /A
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| Lenard 2004-11-12, 5:50 pm |
| On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:34:01 +0100, Andreas Antonovic wrote:
> Yep, you're right.
> The harddisk is connected to a a controller with the IT8212 chip from
> ITE (EIO DM-8401R ATA133 card).
> Linux drivers are availabe as said for RH 9.0.
>
> When I try to install FC2 it asks for a driver disk for additional
> hardware and after reading the disk with RH9.0 driver the card is also
> on the list, but I cannot chose it from the hardware list. It is just
> ignored. When I try the saem with RH9.0 it works perfect.
>
> Any more ideas ?
Yep, Install Fedora Core 3 instead of Fedora Core 2 then...
Download the standard 2.6.9 kernel from kernel.org; http://kernel.org/
Apply the latest patch from Alan Cox; http://lwn.net/Articles/110194/
Compile your own custom kernel;
http://www.digitalhermi.com/linux/K...uild-HOWTO.html
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Lenard 2004-11-13, 7:46 am |
| On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:20:23 +0100, Andreas Antonovic wrote:
> Well, not so easy to install FC3 when the harddisk is not found.....
This will take some time and work;
You can always build and use the 2.6.9-ac7 kernel in RHL9 to get started
with either FC2 or 3. Follow the advice with the appropriate changes from;
http://www.fearthecow.net/index.pl?...est&page=kernel
One change is to use the modutils-2.4.25-13.i386.rpm (or better) or the
modutils-2.4.25-13.i386.rpm from the FC2 media.
Then use something like apt-get to upgrade from RHL9 to FC2/3 get the apt
rpm for RHL9 and add the repositories for the Fedora Core version you want
to use from; http://freshrpms.net/
Then use;
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get dist-upgrade
The FC2 and FC3 repositories short list (remove the comment[#] to use);
# Fedora Linux 3
#rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core updates freshrpms
# Fedora Linux 2
#rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 core updates freshrpms
Remember to comment out the RHL9 repository(ies).
You can always save yourself a bunch of work by simply installing FC2 or 3
on a hard-drive on a different system then build the 2.6.9-ac7 kernel.
When done move the hard-drive back to the system you want it on.
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Lenard 2004-11-13, 7:46 am |
| On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:20:23 +0100, Andreas Antonovic wrote:
>
> Well, not so easy to install FC3 when the harddisk is not found.....
This will take some time and work;
You can always build and use the 2.6.9-ac7 kernel in RHL9 to get started
with either FC2 or 3. Follow the advice with the appropriate changes from;
http://www.fearthecow.net/index.pl?...est&page=kernel
One change is to use the modutils-2.4.25-13.i386.rpm (or better) or the
modutils RPM from the FC2 media.
Then use something like apt-get to upgrade from RHL9 to FC2/3 get the apt
rpm for RHL9 and add the repositories for the Fedora Core version you want
to use from; http://freshrpms.net/
Then use;
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get dist-upgrade
The FC2 and FC3 repositories short list (remove the comment[#] to use);
# Fedora Linux 3
#rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core updates freshrpms
# Fedora Linux 2
#rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 core updates freshrpms
Remember to comment out the RHL9 repository(ies).
You can always save yourself a bunch of work by simply installing FC2 or 3
on a hard-drive on a different system then build the 2.6.9-ac7 kernel.
When done move the hard-drive back to the system you want it on.
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Andreas Antonovic 2004-11-13, 5:48 pm |
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> You can always save yourself a bunch of work by simply installing FC2 or 3
> on a hard-drive on a different system then build the 2.6.9-ac7 kernel.
> When done move the hard-drive back to the system you want it on.
>
I think I'll go that way, the other one seems like a weekend of work ;-)
Thanks for your help, Lenard.
/A
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