All, I downloaded Dave's Kernel, and interestingly enough I was able to get everything up and running after some tweaking. I am running a Dell Inspiron laptop with a USB mouse. I had to do some digging and reading on the kernel documents to find out some of this stuff, nothing too hard, but just time consuming, so I decided to share it with the Fedora community. 1. Download it at: http://people.redhat.com/davej/FedoraCore2/2.6.0-0.1.14/ I only needed the kernel- , kernel-source and kernel-doc RPMs. 2. Install it: Use "rpm -ihv" instead of "rpm -Uhv" taht way you should still be able to boot into the official kernel 2.4.22xx 3. Modify /etc/fstab add line: none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 and create directory /sys 4. If you have a CD-write, kernel 2.6 does not need ide-scsi... so get rid of you hdxx=ide-scsi from /etc/grub.conf 5. Still using OSS for sound, and USB mouse, add the following to /etc/rc.local /sbin/modprobe uhci_hcd /sbin/modprobe i810_audio /sbin/modprobe ac97 * You can always create the right entries to your /etc/modules.conf 6. To get VMWARE running use the following info: http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html 7. I also was able to get cisco vpnclient 4.0.3(b) compiled using kernel 2.6 8. If you are using cpu-freq (i.e. for a P4 chip), add to /etc/rc.local /sbin/modprobe p4-clockmod * You don't nee dot echo the commands to /proc/cpufreq anymore... the info now is store at: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ Quick Fedora Kernel 2.6.0-1.104 Tips Everything else still works... CD-RW, DVD Player, PCMCIA, USB Memory Stick, ACPI... Hope this helps some people. AS
