-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher J. Bottaro Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 1:01 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: ramifications of using a stock kernel? 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- I'm using FC3 and built ndiswrapper with no problems? When I needed to patch the kernel to make S3 work on my laptop I downloaded the kernel source rpm from redhat. Added the patch file to the appropriate directory, modified a rpm build file (don't remember name) and did an rpm kernel build. Then installed the resulting rpm kernel. Check out this thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-April/msg03272.html Jeff Birt Electronics Engineer Integrated Systems Facility University of Missouri - Rolla 573.341.6058
