Hi Thane...
When you patched the kernel, did you use the patch the
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.9 directory which is found in the kernel-source RPM or
did you actually patch the kernel SRPM and build the SRPM to kernel RPMS, then
install the kernel RPM?
I've only recently begun to use Redhat9 and havent yet tackled packet writing
or DVD+RW with this distro, but I did it with Redhat 7.2 back in January. I
had big problems when using the former method. When I would just apply patches
to the source in /usr/src and build the kernel from there, USB was totally
broken. After 3 days of messing around with no success, someone suggested I go
to Redhat's SRPM and use their build process, merge in the patch to their
process and see if the kernel RPM that is produced works. After a little bit
of reverse-engineering their somewhat complex SRPM for the kernel, I merged in
packetwriting and DVD+RW patches both and everything works, including USB.
I was annoyed that it seemed that the contents of the kernel-source RPM that is
produced by the SRPM is actually different then the resulting kernel RPM of the
SRPM. It doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me and I didnt have the time to
see exactly what was different, but if you're just using the source from
/usr/src you might want to go to the SRPM and try working from there.
I plan on tackling this soon but first i have to get ACPI power management
working in their kernel if it's even possible to do in their kernel, but I'll
let you know how I make out when I get around to it.
Take care
- Phillip
--- Thane Heninger
I have been trying to get the packet-writing drivers to work with Red Hat 9 and have so far been unable.
I'm using kernel 2.4.20-13.9. I patched it with the 2.4.20-2 patch which required a few minor modifications.
I am following the very helpful document from Richard Downing [http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt]. Everything seems fine until I actually try to mount a udf disk with mount /dev/pktcdvd0 /mnt/cdrom -t udf -o rw,noatime
The drive seeks around, blinks the light and such for almost 5 minutes and then I get: mount: /dev/pktcdvd0: can't read superblock
During this time, apparently several messages get sent to the system log as I see with dmesg about 44 lines of: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1745 Where the frame can be any number less than 2000. After those lines, dmesg ends with: failed get_disc pktcdvd: pktcdvd0 failed probe
I would be enormously grateful if anyone could offer any assistance for helping me to understand and fix this problem.
Thank you, Thane Heninger Iomega
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