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| 159880 | 2003-07-15 06:01:00 | I have an old box with Red Hat 7.1 installed. Following Mr Palmer's excellent article, I excitedly used scanModem, got an answer and went looking for an rpm called ltmodem-kv-2.4.2_2-8.26a9-1.i686.rpm Unfortunately my kernel is old: 2.4.2-2 is what uname -r tells me, and I can't find any drivers for a kernel that far back. Do I need to upgrade (gulp) my kernel, or upgrade my Red Hat version? Either option scares me... |
ike_ (4237) | ||
| 159881 | 2003-07-15 06:18:00 | How old is the box? Is it a 386, 486, or 586? :D I'd watch out for the processor level of the rpms myself. I thought 2.4 was the current stable release, even if it's at .19 or .2x . Try whatever 2.4.xx rpm you can find. It will either work or not. If it doesn't, see if you can find a source RPM and compile that. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 159882 | 2003-07-15 06:25:00 | Er...it's a PIII. I guess my ignorance of kernel numbering is showing (along with everything else ;-). Thanks, I'll give it a whirl...although compiling a source RPM sounds pretty scary... |
ike_ (4237) | ||
| 159883 | 2003-07-15 06:27:00 | RPMs make it easy. :D What could go wrong? :D :D :D Actually, it is easy if you have the compilers etc installed. The RPM is organised with all the scripts to do the work automatically. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 159884 | 2003-07-15 06:55:00 | You'll have to do what i did and compile from source. get the 8.xx drivers from : Here (www.sfu.ca) "unzip" it into a directory, run konsole, navigate to the DIR you extracted it to, run "./build_module" -> "./ltinst2" -> "./autoload" That should - hopefully - compile and run :D should be in file called 1ST-READ where you extract the source. Good Luck Patryn |
Patryn999 (3748) | ||
| 159885 | 2003-07-17 03:47:00 | Try an "up2date" See if you can update your kernel that way. Failing that go to Redhats FTP site & download a newer kernel for it for 7.1. up2date is a lot easier if you have a RHN account... (Demo accounts are free..) |
kiwistag (2875) | ||
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