Re: error when trying to run kissattach on 2.6.13-15.8 Suse Kernel

["Mike McCarthy, W1NR" <lists@w1nr.net>]

My mistake.  There are no YaST control files present in that directory.  You 
need to download the RPM's and install manually.  If you are using Grub, 
everything should get taken care of.  However, there will be no automatic 
updating via YOU.  Other things like wireless and third party video might 
have problems with this approach also.

The problem is a broken mkiss kernel module.  I tried to update this from 
source a while back and got nowhere.  There are too many other dependencies. 
A lot of work was done on the AX.25 kernel modules recently and will be 
present when SuSE 10.1 gets released (with 2.6.16 kernel).  Currently RC1 is 
available and the official release of 10.1 is scheduled for April 25.  That 
would be the best solution and one I am waiting for.

My cluster server is still running 9.3 because of the mkiss issue.  I will 
be putting 10.1 RC1 on a test machine this weekend to try things out.  Beta 
9 looked good as far as AX.25 was concerned.  About a month after the 10.1 
release, I might upgrade my main server.

Mike, W1NR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Cole" <doug.n7bfs@gmail.com>
To: "Mike McCarthy, W1NR" <lists@w1nr.net>
Cc: "Jeremiah" <jjgpg@cet.com>; <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: error when trying to run kissattach on 2.6.13-15.8 Suse Kernel


On 4/18/06, Mike McCarthy, W1NR <lists@w1nr.net> wrote:
> There is one other possible cure I forgot to mention...
> Point a YaST install source to
> ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/i386/HEAD/
> and try the "kotd - kernel of the day"

Will this be an "easy" kernel upgrade or will it break a system if one
just installs the rpm and that is it? Or will YaST "magically" make
the initrd file and put the new kernel where it should be and make an
entry in Grub?

I am still very green to kernel upgrading (normally I will wait for
the next distro' version) and so don't have all the steps burned into
my cortex like most of the folks on this list, so please pardon the
ignorance...

Thanks for the link :)

Doug
N7BFS