Is there a driver disk for FC6 example anywhere? The driver disk layout changed a few revisions ago and I had a lot of trouble building one for FC5. Now that FC6 has come around I'd like to avoid pulling my hair out again.
I need to make a disk for the Arcea driver, arcmsr, which has finally gone into the upstream kernel (as of 2.6.19-pre1). Hopefully FC6 will upgrade to a kernel containing this driver soon, but to get it installed, I'll need to make a disk. It looks like compiling the driver outside of the tree against the kernel in FC6 shouldn't be hard... but I'm worried about figuring out the driver disk layout all over again. ... (well that and finding a working floppy disk drive.. ugh)
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:34:13PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Is there a driver disk for FC6 example anywhere? The driver disk layout changed a few revisions ago and I had a lot of trouble building one for FC5. Now that FC6 has come around I'd like to avoid pulling my hair out again.
I need to make a disk for the Arcea driver, arcmsr, which has finally gone into the upstream kernel (as of 2.6.19-pre1). Hopefully FC6 will upgrade to a kernel containing this driver soon, but to get it installed, I'll need to make a disk. It looks like compiling the driver outside of the tree against the kernel in FC6 shouldn't be hard... but I'm worried about figuring out the driver disk layout all over again. ... (well that and finding a working floppy disk drive.. ugh)
DKMS mkdriverdisk doesn't work?
On 10/24/06, Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch@dell.com wrote:
DKMS mkdriverdisk doesn't work?
Gah. I'd actually never heard of this before... I painstakingly figured out they format (with all the PCIID tables and such) by stepping through anaconda sources before. Now I feel rather stupid.
I'll give this a try.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:43:36PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 10/24/06, Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch@dell.com wrote:
DKMS mkdriverdisk doesn't work?
Gah. I'd actually never heard of this before... I painstakingly figured out they format (with all the PCIID tables and such) by stepping through anaconda sources before. Now I feel rather stupid.
No, that just gives you even more experience with which you can point out shortcomings of 'dkms mkdriverdisk' to me. :-)
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Matt Domsch wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:34:13PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Is there a driver disk for FC6 example anywhere? The driver disk layout changed a few revisions ago and I had a lot of trouble building one for FC5. Now that FC6 has come around I'd like to avoid pulling my hair out again.
I need to make a disk for the Arcea driver, arcmsr, which has finally gone into the upstream kernel (as of 2.6.19-pre1). Hopefully FC6 will upgrade to a kernel containing this driver soon, but to get it installed, I'll need to make a disk. It looks like compiling the driver outside of the tree against the kernel in FC6 shouldn't be hard... but I'm worried about figuring out the driver disk layout all over again. ... (well that and finding a working floppy disk drive.. ugh)
DKMS mkdriverdisk doesn't work?
Does DKMS looks for pcitable or it has been updated to package module.alias ?
Ravi
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:48:15PM -0700, ravianand wrote:
Does DKMS looks for pcitable or it has been updated to package module.alias ?
It uses pcitable for <= 2.0.13 (the current release). What's the module.alias change?
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:07:04AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:48:15PM -0700, ravianand wrote:
Does DKMS looks for pcitable or it has been updated to package module.alias ?
It uses pcitable for <= 2.0.13 (the current release). What's the module.alias change?
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195899#c18
FC6 and RHEL5 use the new format, and work properly with it..
FC5 also expects "modules.alias" file on DD, but doesn't print error if it's not available.. it also contains bogus checks for files it doesn't use.
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:25:31PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:07:04AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:48:15PM -0700, ravianand wrote:
Does DKMS looks for pcitable or it has been updated to package module.alias ?
It uses pcitable for <= 2.0.13 (the current release). What's the module.alias change?
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195899#c18
FC6 and RHEL5 use the new format, and work properly with it..
FC5 also expects "modules.alias" file on DD, but doesn't print error if it's not available.. it also contains bogus checks for files it doesn't use.
Example of modules.alias:
alias pci:v00001077d00004022sv*sd*bc*sc*i* qla4xxx
That is for Qlogic iSCSI HBA.
Files needed on DD: rhdd, modules.cgz, modinfo, modules.alias and modules.dep
-- Pasi
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core fedora-devel-list@redhat.com
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:25:31PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:07:04AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:48:15PM -0700, ravianand wrote:
Does DKMS looks for pcitable or it has been updated to package module.alias ?
It uses pcitable for <= 2.0.13 (the current release). What's the module.alias change?
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195899#c18
FC6 and RHEL5 use the new format, and work properly with it..
Thats correct. Without modules.alias file, ddkit is not going to work.
FC5 also expects "modules.alias" file on DD, but doesn't print error if it's not available.. it also contains bogus checks for files it doesn't use.
Example of modules.alias:
alias pci:v00001077d00004022sv*sd*bc*sc*i* qla4xxx
That is for Qlogic iSCSI HBA.
Files needed on DD: rhdd, modules.cgz, modinfo, modules.alias and modules.dep
THanx Ravi
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:16:18AM -0700, ravianand wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core fedora-devel-list@redhat.com
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:25:31PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:07:04AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:48:15PM -0700, ravianand wrote:
Does DKMS looks for pcitable or it has been updated to package module.alias ?
It uses pcitable for <= 2.0.13 (the current release). What's the module.alias change?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195899#c18
FC6 and RHEL5 use the new format, and work properly with it..
DKMS patch below which creates the FC5+ driver disk format. It auto-generates modules.alias. Please try this if you use this feature.
Thanks, Matt
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:18:40PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:16:18AM -0700, ravianand wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core fedora-devel-list@redhat.com
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:25:31PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:07:04AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:48:15PM -0700, ravianand wrote:
Does DKMS looks for pcitable or it has been updated to package module.alias ?
It uses pcitable for <= 2.0.13 (the current release). What's the module.alias change?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195899#c18
FC6 and RHEL5 use the new format, and work properly with it..
DKMS patch below which creates the FC5+ driver disk format. It auto-generates modules.alias. Please try this if you use this feature.
Any feedback? I've not received any...
I know this is probebly not the most appropriate list, but probably the most informed...
I've done an "upgrade" to a new major Fedora version in the past and it seems you are not left with all the new "bells and whistles" of the newer version.
Is an upgrade from FC5->FC6 virtually the same result as a clean FC6 install (and reinstall/setup of my environment)?
If clean install, how can I most easily preserve things like user accounts etc. when all are on the same disk?
john
Most recently on one of our servers I have upgraded from FC5 > FC6 and yes you do not get all the "bells and whistles". What it does is upgrade the core, and rpm modules installed to the FC6 corresponding rpm's. A re-install will definently be the best and give you all the bells and whistles. However on our one server that was upgraded to FC6 I have way to many custom scripts and configs to redo. Was looking forward to the eye candy provided from FC6. However manually installing some of these nice additions manually via yum should not be an issue? Anyone have a "yum install" list of what they have done to make use of the extra's from FC6 after an upgrade would be most beneficial.
On another note I have noticed a nice OS speed increase and gui stability within Gnome which is very nice!
cheers,
Jim Clarke
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:25:43 -0800, W.John Guineau wrote
I know this is probebly not the most appropriate list, but probably the most informed...
I've done an "upgrade" to a new major Fedora version in the past and it seems you are not left with all the new "bells and whistles" of the newer version.
Is an upgrade from FC5->FC6 virtually the same result as a clean FC6 install (and reinstall/setup of my environment)?
If clean install, how can I most easily preserve things like user accounts etc. when all are on the same disk?
john
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Matt Domsch wrote: Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core fedora-devel-list@redhat.com
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:18:40PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:16:18AM -0700, ravianand wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core fedora-devel-list@redhat.com
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:25:31PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:07:04AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:48:15PM -0700, ravianand wrote: > Does DKMS looks for pcitable or it has been updated to package module.alias ?
It uses pcitable for <= 2.0.13 (the current release). What's the module.alias change?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195899#c18
FC6 and RHEL5 use the new format, and work properly with it..
DKMS patch below which creates the FC5+ driver disk format. It auto-generates modules.alias. Please try this if you use this feature.
Any feedback? I've not received any...
We will try it out and provide you an updated sometime next week. Just got busy with some of the other work.
Thanx Ravi
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