[Gllug] Issues with Hotplug && Auto-mounting

[Henry Gilbert]

On 11/22/05, Ben Fitzgerald <ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:00:49PM +0000, Henry Gilbert wrote:
> > On 11/21/05, Shakthi Kannan <cyborg4k at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > --- Henry Gilbert <henry.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > script to work on Slackware 10.2 (Linux 2.4.31) ..
> > >
> > > Any specific reason to use 2.4.x?
> >
> > I managed to make the Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem work on it.
> > Any other kernel I failed.
> > If I could be confident I could make it work with 2.6.xx then I would
> > go for that.
> > But I am kinda scared of breaking something I found hard making it work
>
> just get hold of a 2.6 kernel package for slackware and install it.
> Kernel packages co-habit as everything is under
> /lib/modules/<kernel-version> or /boot/bzImage-<version> etc.
>
> Then add your new kernel to /etc/lilo.conf, re-run lilo and reboot,
> selecting your new 2.6 kernel from the menu. If it all goes pear shaped,
> reboot into 2.4.
>
> if you can't find a 2.6 kernel package (or packages, I forget, as I
> haven't used slackware for a good while) just compile your own and
> create the package.
>
> HTH,
>
> Ben.
>

Yeah I've done that.
I left the neighbours just now
and left the source code compiling overnight
(needed to make sure we have the right modules)


regards

Henry
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