HELP - Fedora 14 with kernel 2.6.39-rc5

[mike cloaked]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:32 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for those very clear steps to build the kernel from source.
>> I used these steps to build the same kernel (built as
>> 2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc14.i686.PAE, with associated kernel-PAE-devel,
>> kernel-headers and perf rpms) on my f14 laptop.  The build needed
>> about 8GiB of available hard drive space and took about an hour and 20
>> minutes on this core duo machine.
>>
>> This is a Dell laptop with nvidia graphics and this kernel works
>> beautifully for me - I am using the newly built kernel as I type - and
>> have no problems on this hardware at all.
>>
>> Shame that there are no test builds available for updates-testing for
>> the same version! This looks like a lovely kernel and way snappier
>> than the current f14 kernel in updates.
>
> Hmm - I have now had a chance to run this kernel for a while and I do
> have some problems with it - I am getting some loss of dns at random -
> and getting kernel panics which are locking up X - so I guess I need
> to test more and perhaps look at building the next available kernel
> source when it comes out....

On further investigation it turned out that it was not DNS (I do
lookups on another machine in the LAN) but in fact wireless network
flakiness -

Oh well - more work to do but definitely worth looking at this kernel
for running in f14.

-- 
mike c