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Re: [rhelv5-list] Compile missing kernel modules

Brian Long

2008-01-25

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On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:13 +0100, Bohmer, Andre ten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just upgraded a RHEL4 server to RHELS5. This server has a firewire LaCie
> disk connected, so I always compiled a custom kernel (from kernel.org or
> RH via up2date --get-source kernel) to enable the appropriate ieee1394
> modules. Now it seems there is no source kernel available in RHELS5
> (searched RHN and tried yumdownloader to no avail). Any suggestions
> please except switching to a kernel.org kernel? Maybe overlooking the
> obvious because op pre-weekend stress ;)

Look at http://atrpms.net. Axel has an excellent repo and provides
kernel module (kmdl) RPMs for ieee1394. This way you run Red Hat's true
kernel binary but modprobe just the module built by Axel.

/Brian/

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