On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 01:14 -0700, Bill McMenemy wrote: > I live in a fairly remote area where all I can get is at best 28.8K dialup. > However, this has not deterred me from trying to keep up as best I can. > My store-bought purchase of RH 6.1 has long since been upgraded to > RH9, which I have been dual-booting with W-XPPro quite happily, > after performing the quixotic manual edits of the Makefile, .config et al. > So, I get my kernel to 'see' my NTFS install, and be happy with my > linmodem, and generally behave as a usable system. Now comes the > Catch-22! I buy a copy of the Jan., 2005 DVD edition of 'Linux Magazine' > <online, of course> and Woohoo! I have a bootable Fedora Core 3 DVD. > After a number of false starts, RH9 is upgraded to FC3; except .... As per > all previous releases, I cannot see my NTFS partitions, and I am unable to > get online. Why? Because my modem driver won't compile since I do not > have the kernel source, and NTFS is not supported in the kernel as shipped, > and I can't include NTFS support because..... > So, I guess I'm stuck with the 2.4.20-8 kernel, and the downlevel packages > that RH9 shipped with; in the words of the manic smiling guy riding his > tractor > lawn-mower in the commercial, "Please Help Me!" > As long as these types of obstructions are prevalent, the RYGB flag waving > on the vast majority of desktops will continue to prevail. Download the NTFS kernel module packages you need from http://linux- ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/ and copy them to the FC3 box. No idea what to do about your modem, though most properly-written drivers for 2.6 kernels *do not need* the kernel source to be installed in order to build them. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
