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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Robert MacKinnon wrote: > At 12:10 14/10/97 +0200, Harald Milz wrote: > >sorry if that's inappropriate) have with it. I'd spend some $$ and get > >a recent Red Hat (4.2) or Caldera CD. XFree86 3.2 is not very likely to > > Agreed. Redhat was a nobrainer to install and configure. Highly > recommended. Have any of you tried recompiling the kernel under RedHat 4.2? Apparently the PCMCIA module source is not included with the RedHat kernel/module source distribution. My newly compiled kernel supports my 701's SB emulation and IP masquerading, but not my PCMCIA slots - hence no ethernet and no Internet connection. I tried rebooting with my old kernel. It gave me back my PCMCIA support, but the new modules don't work with that kernel, which means my ethernet card doesn't work. So I can get ethernet support but no PCMCIA support (new kernel), or I can get PCMCIA support but no ethernet support (old kernel). To fix this problem, I need to download the PCMCIA source files off the net and compile the appropriate modules to regain access to the net. Catch-22... No problem, I figure. I'll just get the PCMCIA source files off the CD. Wait a sec, my CD drive is SCSI and uses a PCMCIA card. ARRRRGGGGHHH!!! So be careful if you're recompiling the kernel with RedHat on your laptop. Don't just make a backup of your old kernel, backup the /lib/modules directory too. (I still have access to my PCMCIA cards under Win95. Unfortunately, the PCMCIA source files are not on the 6-CD RedHat distribution, and my Internet connection has been down all weekend. I'll be taking another stab at it tomorrow.) P.S. Does anyone know a way to get my new kernel to use the old PCMCIA modules? It seems to me it shouldn't matter when the modules were compiled. Am I missing something obvious? -- John H. Kim kim@mak.com