Hi, On Sat, Sep 02, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
according to ftp.suse.com the newest update kernel is:
Linux version 2.2.16 (root@Pentium.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Sun Jul 9 17:51:02 GMT 2000
IIRC this version has some problems with 3com 509c (??) network
Every kernel has problems with some 3c90x cards (509 are ISA cards).
cards (and vmware?). An update was announced to come up soon (IIRC). Is that update still not available, or did we looked wrong?
I'm not aware of any problems wrt vmware.
Second, the latest freeswan.rpm we found on ftp.suse.com installs a module into /lib/modules/2.2.14 which couldn't be load with 2.2.16, so an update for freeswan should be neccesary. Where can we find that?
Normally all modules of the system should be in the kernel rpm. If this is not the case, it is a bug on our side. I will have a look.
Third, we had trouble updateing the kernel itself. We updated the RPM (rpm -U k_deflt.rpm). After a problem with initrd I executed /sbin/mk_initrd. At boot, kernel said "uncompressing initrd" and showed that dots, but don't stopped drwaing dots (we rebooted a backup kernel after two screens of uncompressing dots).
You ran "mk_initrd" but failed to run "lilo" afterwards. mk_initrd created a new initrd, but lilo didn't know about it and did load junk.
I have no idea what the problem was; finally I made /boo empty, reinstalled the rpm, re-run mk_initrd (and of course lilo if somebody wonders :)), and rebooted - this time with success.
"and of course lilo" is the magic thing you forgot in your first attempt.
Any ideas?
oki,
Steffen -o) Hubert Mantel Goodbye, dots... /\\ _\_v