Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:10:18 +0100 (MET) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: Compiling RHEL WS Kernels |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:23:14 -0800, Paul G. Allen wrote: >I recently installed RHEL WS Update 3 (kernel 2.4.21-20) on my laptop. >Out of the box it does not recognize any USB devices, my Synaptics >touchpad, my PCMCIA Wireless (NetGear WAG511G) or the proper >resolution on my LCD. (NOTE: RH 9 worked perfectly OOTB on this same >machine. So far I'm not at all impressed with RHEL WS - any more than >I was with RH 7.0.) > >I tried to build a new 2.4.21 kernel based upon a configuration from a >non-RH kernel (2.4.24) that worked on this machine. Not a single >module will compile correctly. I had to remove all modules and compile >them into the kernel. I2C code will not compile at all and it had to >be completely removed. After this I was able to compile a working >kernel, but it boots with errors and the NVIDIA driver will not >compile. ... >What compiler versions are known to work with this kernel?
I run RHEL3 2.4.21-20.EL on several servers over here, and in that role it works great.
You should only use gcc-3.2.3 to compile RHEL3 kernels. The old 2.4 code base has problems with later gcc versions; they've been fixed in 2.4.28-pre/rc, but that doesn't help you with your 2.4.21-based RHEL kernel.
And as Arjan wrote, you must do a mrproper before configuring and building the kernel and modules.
>My next step may be D/L the latest 2.6 stable kernel and try compiling >that (but that still leaves the question of which gcc version to use).
Just about any one of {2.95.3, 3.2.3, 3.3.5, 3.4.3}. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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