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(I think, without checking) devfs has been removed from 2.6.14 and |
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everything is supposed to be udev from now on. |
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A suggestion made out of frustration with 2.6.14 - use 2.6.13-r3 first. |
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Some kernel versions have had glitches with udev, and I know -r2 and -r3 |
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are working for me on the i82k. |
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The reason is that 2.6.14 has made some rather large leaps that created |
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problems for me (so far all 3 machines, inc. desktops Ive tried have |
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headaches!) |
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First udev, install udev according to the gentoo guide and that should |
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work fine. Check the udev USE flag so and "emerge world --newuse" if |
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neccessary. Strongly reccomended: use the tarball method, not pure |
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udev! you have enough problems without trying to sort that out. |
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Once its working and reliable, make the step to 2.6.14-r2 |
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Traps for 2.6.14 are: |
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dont select both the log and ulog targets together in the netfilter |
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modules or you wont have any logging (changes mean only a single target |
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can be selected at a time - of course in true unix fashion they dont |
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tell you that, or prevent you from doing it:( |
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Only wpa_supplicant version 0.4.5 seems to work |
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pcmcia stuff seems to have changed somewhat, and I changed to |
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pcmciautils which was probably not necessary looking back, but it works |
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nicely and pcmcia-cs is on the way out. |
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wireless (madwifi) is now working fine (still got to check no encryption |
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which I have not been able to get to work under 2.6.13) - I turned all |
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kernel wireless stuff off and use wpa_supplicant and madwifi |
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softwaresuspend2 rc9 works with 2.6.14 - r10 and r11 have bugs, the |
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earlier ones dont apply cleanly. |
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The cisco-vpnclient wont compile against 2.6.14 until you delete some |
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lines out of one of the files: there's patches/instructions on the |
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forums. Also, with the latest security bug in one of the protocols it |
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uses, an update will be along soon I'd say. |
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Ive had no problems with the 6629 series nvidia drivers, manually |
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patched for suspend2, but this was on a desktop (gforce4) as the i82k |
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uses a radeon card. |
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Had to use the ~x86 x11-drm to compile the radeon drm driver against |
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2.6.14 |
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2.6.14 is looking like a major pita so far. I have another machine to |
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do tonight, but hopefully there wont be any new dramas. |
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BillK |
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On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:56 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: |
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> I've been running 2.6.10 for some time. Then I started reading some stuff |
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> that I should update my Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook to UDEV. So I followed |
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> the gentoo wiki page and used kernel 2.6.13. This caused (known) issues with |
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> my nvidia driver and I couldn't get the USB mouse to work (yet the alps pad |
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> AND track point both worked fine). I didn't know what else was going to not |
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> work, so I said the hell with this as I'd already wasted enough time and |
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> went back to my old kernel image (until the udev people get their shit |
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> together and this is more stable). |
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> |
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> I unmerged 'udev' |
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> |
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> I re-emerged devfsd |
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> Things were generally working fine (with 2.6.10) |
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> |
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> Tonight I tried to make a new 2.6.14 kernel (using make oldconfig) and when |
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> it booted, there was some message that I don't have DEVFS or UDEV installed |
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> and so many things didn't work including sound, nvidia, wireless, etc. |
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> |
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> I re-read the udev wiki page and tried to find the 'make menuconfig' options |
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> they suggest and can't find them. I also grepped my .config for both "UDEV" |
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> and "DEVFS" and found nothing. WTF! |
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> How do I use the good old devfs with the 2.6.14+ kernels?! Where are the |
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> freakin' settings? What do I need to change/fix to get it to work again. |
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> UGH! |
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> |
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