Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[mantel@xxxxxxx (Hubert Mantel)]

Hi,

On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Howard Arons wrote:

> I have compiled a "customized" 2.0.33 kernel for myself, after 
> checking the HOW-TOs and following threads in this list. I now have a 
> 300k kernel that boots without a problem and works fine, as far as I 
> can tell. Except...
> 
> Issue 1:
> 
> At boot time, dmesg shows nothing amiss. However, when I start pppd 
> (compiled into the kernel), the message "localhost syslog: IPX support 
> is not present in the kernel". OK, I _know_ that, I do not use Netware, 
> am not on Ethernet, and so I excluded IPX from the kernel. I commented 
> out the IPX lines from /etc/services, but no joy.
> 
> What should I do to eliminate the message, or should I bother about it?

Ignore it. Or "fix" ifconfig.

> Issue 2:
> 
> I haven't upgraded the kernel, only recompiled it. My previous modules
> seem to work OK. Need I do a 'make modules_install' or am I headed for
> trouble if I don't?

No, you can leave them alone. There's only one thing to look for: If you
enable module versioning (setting CONFIG_MODVERSIONS), you need to
recompile the modules, as our precompiled kernels default to
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS set to off.

> Howard Arons
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    Hubert                                                        /\\
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