Wanting scsi cd drive to work (again) - Page 2

12-03-2005	#11 (permalink)
kern Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 668	mm not much help you should blacklist the pcihp and shpchp modules in /etc/hotplug/blacklist and you should upgrade to kernel 2.6 (it is on the 2nd cd as a package in testing) come back after you've done that , and then give us a dmesg again. its certainly not picking it up at the moment, but you should be using a 2.6 kernel for more hardware support really in my opinion.

12-03-2005

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kern

mm not much help

you should blacklist the pcihp and shpchp modules in /etc/hotplug/blacklist

and you should upgrade to kernel 2.6

(it is on the 2nd cd as a package in testing)

come back after you've done that , and then give us a dmesg again.

its certainly not picking it up at the moment, but you should be using a 2.6 kernel for more hardware support really

in my opinion.

"you should blacklist the pcihp and shpchp modules in /etc/hotplug/blacklist"

i have no idea what this means....

also, in the second cd there is no testing/ dir there is

Code:

gmp@mshome:/mnt/cdrom$ ls
CHECKSUMS.md5  CHECKSUMS.md5.asc  FILELIST.TXT  README.TXT  linux-2.6.13/  slackware/
gmp@mshome:/mnt/cdrom$

(dont ask me why my hostname is mshome..because i dont know...)

my bet the 2.6 kernel would be in linux-2.6.13/ wouldnt ya think...

Code:

gmp@mshome:/mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13$ ls
README.initrd                             kernel-headers-2.6.13-i386-1.txt
alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486-1.tgz      kernel-headers.WARNING
alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486-1.tgz.asc  kernel-modules-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz
alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486-1.txt      kernel-modules-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz.asc
kernel-generic-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz          kernel-modules-2.6.13-i486-1.txt
kernel-generic-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz.asc      kernel-source-2.6.13-noarch-1.tgz
kernel-generic-2.6.13-i486-1.txt          kernel-source-2.6.13-noarch-1.tgz.asc
kernel-headers-2.6.13-i386-1.tgz          kernel-source-2.6.13-noarch-1.txt
kernel-headers-2.6.13-i386-1.tgz.asc
gmp@mshome:/mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13$

i know the slackware package thing in .tgz and the is kernel-source-2.6.13-noarch-1.tgz
should i just use pkgtool and install all of those things?

12-03-2005	#13 (permalink)
kern Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 668	I'd upgrade the 2.4 modules and package to 2.6 and if you notice your dmesg there are a load of errors regarding those two modules I told you to blacklist, and where to blacklist. thats another matter completely though. and yes, they are the packages for 2.6 kernel. remember to use the 2.4 headers though, as you are supposed to use the same kernel headers that the glibc you run was compiled _on_. its not hard to upgrade to 2.6 via packages, instead of using 'pkgtool' why dont you learn how to use package tools 'install/upgrade/removepkg'

12-03-2005	#14 (permalink)
kern Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 668	what does 'cat /etc/HOSTNAME' say? you probably setup your hostname wrong thinking it was the xp workgroup name.

12-05-2005

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Ok, so which of these do i install?
and i can install packages by going installpkg packagename.tgz is that what you mean

Code:

gmp@mshome:/mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13$ ls
README.initrd                             kernel-headers-2.6.13-i386-1.txt
alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486-1.tgz      kernel-headers.WARNING
alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486-1.tgz.asc  kernel-modules-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz
alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486-1.txt      kernel-modules-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz.asc
kernel-generic-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz          kernel-modules-2.6.13-i486-1.txt
kernel-generic-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz.asc      kernel-source-2.6.13-noarch-1.tgz
kernel-generic-2.6.13-i486-1.txt          kernel-source-2.6.13-noarch-1.tgz.asc
kernel-headers-2.6.13-i386-1.tgz          kernel-source-2.6.13-noarch-1.txt
kernel-headers-2.6.13-i386-1.tgz.asc
gmp@mshome:/mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13$

gmp@mshome:~$cat /etc/HOSTNAME
mshome.gmp
gmp@mshome:~$

theres the hostname thingy

12-05-2005	#16 (permalink)
kern Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 668	there you go then, your hostname is wrong, edit it. as for the kernel, init 1, then install the kernel-generic/kernel-modules pkg's , and remove the 2.4 ones. but do not install the kernel-source, or kernel-headers 2.6 packages. then remove kernel-generic and kernel-modules packages for _2.4_ make sure you can "lilo -v" with no errors to replace the MBR, and check the /boot/vmlinuz symlink to see if it points to 2.6 and not 2.4 once you've done that, see if your new kernel loads and then give us your dmesg/lsmod/ again thanks!

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