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Kai Hendry wrote:
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:44:56PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote:you didn't answer me on where I get a Debian kernel with NETCONFIG-RADIO enabled?I don't know/care where. How about looking yourself? Herbert Xu list what options they have on/off somewhere. And even if he doesn't have the option enabled, it probably compiled as a module!
I don't think you can enable wireless extensions other than at configure time, so I guess a module is out, although I see no general reason why it couldn't be done, depends how modular your kernel is designed to be.
Performance gains by compiling your own packages for your x86 arch have been discussed countless times, the result? Not worth it.
I was talking about the box being faster, not compiling for architecture, nevermind.
I don't understand why they bundle modules like wvlan_cs and wavelan etc if the kernel can't use them - or did I miss something?I don't know about your particular case.
There seems to be a bug report filed, suggesting this is a Woody bug.
There are *lots* of kernel packages.
Yes, but no obvious way to tell if any of them will drive your hardware, unless your lucky enough to have it put in the "show" text, or am I missing something. Sure the author may list the settings somewhere, but if I can't find it relatively easily most newbies are going to be very lost indeed. At least with my available bandwidth it'll be far faster to build a custom kernel - so I did - now I have an Internet connection on the box I might try a prebuilt kernel after 2.4.18 to see how it would have worked. Kernel-Package made it very easy to make a custom kernel image, I like this staying within the packaging system, and easily customised kernel packages could have their uses as well ;-) I'm busy trying out 'apt-get -u upgrade' for the first time, so rare you get a package manager with a distro that actually appears to make a decent stab at upgrading things, but we'll see. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.