New user encountering problems

[Victor Tsaran]

No, no, that was a response to Brad hardin, sorry, if I misspelled your
name.
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Vic

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at ufw2.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: New user encountering problems


> If one were to do this, how would you get speakup loaded?
> At 03:59 PM 9/23/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >I always suggest to take RedHat kernel as it is and just load modules.
> >Best,
> >Vic
> >
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> >have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is still
> >alive!
> >Here is the URL:
> >http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~vtsaran/
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at ufw2.com>
> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 8:55 PM
> >Subject: Re: New user encountering problems
> >
> >
> >> I've liked debian for awhile, but tons of stuff won't compile, because
the
> >> locations of files are a little screwy. Why put stuff in non standard
> >> places I don't know. How does one configure a redhat kernel when
compiling
> >> anyways? I'm thinking about using it some time, suppose I need the
3c59x
> >> driver support for networking, can I config it like a normal kernel or
> >does
> >> redhat have tools to make this easier?
> >> At 11:24 PM 9/22/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >> >Hi
> >> > It is possible to build a speakup kernel from the Red Hat source
> >> >RPM. Just skip the patches that can't find their files, they don't
apply
> >> >to the i386.
> >> > However, the kernel will build, but unless you use a rh supplied
> >> >config, your modules will have unresolved symbols all over the place.
I
> >> >don't think speakup agrees with some of the patches RH applied to
their
> >> >kernel rpm, for it is not a clean source. They've applied all sorts of
> >> >stuff that are beta, or even alpha. Not wise, I believe they do it to
try
> >> >to get their distro to support more hardware.
> >> > Personally, I think slackware is the best, closely followed by
> >> >debian.
> >> >
> >> >On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Kirk Wood wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I believe this is a kernel problem. Once the kernel starts expanding
> >(you
> >> >> get the loading and the dots, then the kernel quickly takes over. My
> >guess
> >> >> is that you used the kernell source provided by RedHat. If you did,
> >then
> >> >> you should download the kernel (possibly from kernel.org) and apply
the
> >> >> patch compile, etc.) RedHat doesn't provide the complete kernel and
as
> >a
> >> >> result the built images don't work correct. Sorry I can't give you
more
> >> >> complete details. Just that it is common to discover you can't build
a
> >> >> working kernel with speakup from the RedHat source package.
> >> >>
> >> >
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