Re: ramifications of using a stock kernel?

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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).
-- 
John H Ludwig

Common sense is so rare, why do they call it common!!!

I'm not schitziod! I got better tomorrow.


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