Re: ramifications of using a stock kernel?

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jludwig wrote:

> On Saturday 14 May 2005 02:01 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
>> Apparently the FC kernels are all hacked/patched by Red Hat.  Thus things
>> like ndiswrapper won't compile against them.  I need two things that
>> require a stock kernel from kernel.org:  ndiswrapper, and an unofficial
>> patch that makes my stupid Dell Inspiron 6000's DVD player use DMA.
>>
>> Now my question is what ramifications will there be for using a stock
>> kernel on an FC3 system.  What will break?
>>
>> Oh, I have a second question.  Where can I get the stock FC3 kernel
>> config
>> file.  Honestly, the kernel has gotten so big, that I have no idea which
>> options should be turned off or on.  Its nice to just load the default
>> FC3 one, but I don't know where it is.
>>
>> Thanks for the info.
> I have done so with the 2.4 kernel.
> 
> You don't have to loose the Red Hat/Fedora kernel and can set up grub to
> boot from either(which is the wiswst choice anyways).

Thats what I was planning on doing.  Still, curious about the answer to my
question though.  Also would like to know where the default FC3 kernel
config file is.  Thanks.

-- C


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