Slackware: kernel confusion

[Ralph W. Reid]

I notice that an 'openvpn' package is in Slackware-current (soon to be
Slackware 12.0).  Maybe this package will work with your Cisco
equipment?

As an extra note, the Speakup modified kernel in slackware-current is
version 2.6.21.5--looks like Slackware is about to move on to 2.6.x
kernels completely.

Have a great dday.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:20:07PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Yeah, I'm thinking of maintaining both the latest 2.4 and 2.6
> kernels.  I have a Cisco VPN client that works OK with a 2.4 kernel
> but as soon as I throw it on a 2.6 kernel, I keep getting miss-matched
> kernel versions or some such; I thought it was compiled to work with
> 2.6 but here we go with closed source again <yuck!>.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:21:03PM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote:
> > Yea, listen to patrick, "unless you have a particular reason" to install
> > headers then it's better to not do so. The glibc is the crux of all of 
> > this toolchain, and the same reason why that old viavoice became 
> > a nightmare to support. The distro folks like patrick play with gcc,
> > glibc, and binutils combination until they find a stable combination
> > to build the entire system out of. The kernel headers, as he states 
> > in his warning, it's dangerous to use headers newer than the glibc
> > version on your system. You can still build the 2.6.x kernel. There
> > are some situations where stuff will not build, which is why he has
> > the headers on the site, but don't change headers as a default 
> > starting point, only as a last resort. And yes, you don't need the 
> > modules, in fact you don't need anything from there. Patrick uses
> > ONLY unmodified kernels anyways, so if you want the latest 
> > that still works with speakup, grab the last of the 2.21.x from 
> > kernel.org. Or be like us old folks who prefer the stable 
> > "trailing edge". I have not found a need for 2.6.x yet, so using
> > Patrick's similar logic, I will do so when I have a reason to. 
> > I used to chase the leading edge kernels but found that it was 
> > generally a waste of time in the large scheme of things.
> > 
> >   -- Doug
> > 
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