Kevin, I was having crash proble,ms also. My system would freeze and flash the caps lock & scroll lock LEDs. Yesterday, I used YOU to install the updated kernel that's available. It's called k_deflt-2.4.19-174.i586.rpm. I have a 56k modem so I just set it to do it during the night while I was sleeping. When I woke up that morning, it had completed the install. I rebooted and it hasn't crashed yet. Prior to the install of the new kernel, it would crash approximately every hour or two. Try the new kernel. i suspect it'll work for you too. Rick On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 11:19, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:

On Tuesday 14 January 2003 11:07, Mark Gray wrote:

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This is almost certainly a problem with the 8.1 kernel then -- install k_deflt-2.4.19-174.i586.rpm from the SuSE updates like several others suggested if you have not already.

That has to be an explicit download and rpm invokation? Or can that be done as part of a YOU update?

Those who have installed the new kernel... did it go in smoothly? Or did you have to track down a hundred dependencies?

On Tuesday 14 January 2003 7:17 pm, Rick Friedman wrote:

Kevin,

I was having crash proble,ms also. My system would freeze and flash the caps lock & scroll lock LEDs.

Yesterday, I used YOU to install the updated kernel that's available. It's called k_deflt-2.4.19-174.i586.rpm. I have a 56k modem so I just set it to do it during the night while I was sleeping. When I woke up that morning, it had completed the install. I rebooted and it hasn't crashed yet. Prior to the install of the new kernel, it would crash approximately every hour or two.

Try the new kernel. i suspect it'll work for you too.

Rick

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Sorry to ask such a basic question, but how do I download and install the new kernel using YOU? The kernel is not in the list of packages which can be selected for download. So how do I find it and select it? I have tried downloading it using APT, but the gwdg.de server has been faulty for the past week. Using a 56K modem, I get the download speed rising to 3KB/s for a few seconds, then it rapidly falls to a few hundred bytes/sec, then it stalls for a minute or more, and eventually rises back to 3KB/s, and the cycle starts all over again.It regularly disconnects me. There are no problems with any other servers, that is why I would like to use YOU and a different server. Many thanks Keith