Got it running (was Re: best way to install rh9?)

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Thanks much to everyone who answered my questions about installing rh9. 
I've got rh9 and cvs speakup up and running after handpatching keyboard.c 
and miscdevice.h.  I must say it's better than rh7 which was the version I 
last used. However, how do I adjust the firewall level? I see a gui tool 
for doing it but nothing for textmode.
One last question: How safe is it to divert away from the rh-supplied 
kernel configs? One of the problems in rh7 seemed to be that if I deviated 
too far from the rh standard, my modules would have many unresolved 
symbols, never could figure out why. Does this still happen?
Thanks again.

At 21:43 5/12/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>      In /usr/src/<linux_directory>/drivers/char/keyboard.c, find the lines
>that say
>static struct kbd_struct * kbd = kbd_table;
>static struct tty_struct * tty;
>Presently, they're on lines 101 and 102.  Remove the word static and the
>space after it from the beginning of each line.  This is after the
>checkout program attempts to patch the file.  I have no idea what the next
>line does.  That appears to be the one that RH adds.
>           HTH.