Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 upgrade howto

[Maarten]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 16:17, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:58:22 +0100, Maarten <gentoo@××××××××.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 December 2004 20:25, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:57:15 +0100, Maarten <gentoo@××××××××.org> wrote:
> > > > On Monday 06 December 2004 19:23, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:47:43 +0100, Maarten <gentoo@××××××××.org>
> > > > > wrote:

> > What is your opinion on the udev vs ... choice ?
>
> Personnally udev is the way to go, most of the troubles of the early
> days are gone if not all. Never had any troubles with and as a bonus
> you can reserve some blocks to some device like if you like your usb
> key to always be /dev/sda. It's pretty flexible, useful, it's not
> deprecated and it's maintained.

Thanks for explaining that.  Thanks Neil, too.  It was always awkward, the 
shifting devicenames under 2.4.  So this solves that.  Great!

> All I can say is that I understand you better than you could know
> (damn I hate redhat ... oops sorry OT ... must control rage ...)

That was suse actually, a distro which I really like(d?) but one has got to 
move on. The thing with suse and redhat is, once you _need_ to compile 
something because there is no binary for it, then the trouble really starts.
Good luck getting a promisc-cabable driver for a wifi card into suse without 
hours and hours trial and error.  Well, sometimes you're lucky.

> > Hey, I already like this list, feels right at home  :-))

I'm almost ready to reboot to 2.6.9 but a little (but potential showstopper-) 
problem showed up.  I have two wired NICs, both of them 3Com575TX. (not a 
typo, it is a different card than the 3C574 or 3C589 cards) (Cardbus, 100TX)
I know that I need(ed) the 3c575_cb module for it under 2.4.  The thing is, 
that came with pcmcia-cs, not with the kernel. This new kernel has the pcmcia 
built-in but it seems this driver was deprecated; it just isn't there.
Now chances are it is merged into something else, but not knowing gives me the 
creeps. No network -> no nothing. No emerge that is. No emerge no fixing. 
And I have no other brand laying around (except for wireless but that's not 
proven to work yet)
Anyone know what happened to this infamous 3C575 driver ?
A grep for 575 in Documentation/* (including Changes) yields nothing at all. 
The same in .config by the way.

The card is great otherwise, never any problems with it

Maarten


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