[hsflinux] What happened to me

[Tony Earnshaw]

Hi list,

Last time ... I'm more or less back to where I was in Feb. 2002.

I was "forced" (yes, by a colleague) to install Red Hat Advanced
Enterprise Server ... on my el Cheapo Compaq notebook. So that I can
support it :-( My specialties are the latest LDAP, Postfix/Exim and
Courier versions as mailadmin, but that's not enough.

I'd happily been running ACPI patched 2.4.19 kernel.org stuff and beta
HSF modem drivers on RH 7.2+++++, but that isn't mod - cool - enough any
more, obviously. Guess what - everything but ACPI in RH AES. ACPI isn't
supported by RH in the 2.4 kernels. The el Cheapo Compaq was once again
hot enough to boil eggs on. And of course, my modem was gone.

Nothing else for it, download kernel.org 2.6.0-test9 code, configure,
learn all about mkinitrd and why there's no source code any more in
/usr/src, configure, compile and ACPI worked again. Not without a few
hiccups, though. But my HSF beta *tar.gz wouldn't install, neither would
the free *tar.gz. So, now I have a multi-faceted, hardware-chipset
CM-56G Xircom 56K2 PCMCIA card again which is supported by the kernel.

I'd like to thank Marc again for helping me out when I threatened to
commit suicide that day in Feb 2002 and for all his efforts both with
Conexant and Netfilter, wish him and Jean-Simon all the best. I never
had any trouble to speak of with the HSF beta drivers, when they worked
- which they mostly did ;)

Best,

--Tonni

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