[wellylug] Aims or Objectives > Back to PCI Modems

[Chris Hodgetts]

not wanting to turn this political...

Thats a Mandrake Issue, not a Linux issue though.
You could take the more cautious approach and have your default kernel
back a 2.2 :)

I agree with you there, or at least have some form of backwards
compatibility with kernel modules for modems and things they know may
not work with a kernel change.  

I have a conextant modem, and I got the free drivers for it, and they
compiled against the 2.6 kernel fine, but I am not sure who they do it,
but they say it's not kernel specific - but I get the debian package,
and it wont compile at all against the 2.6 only the 2.4 -- strange.


On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 15:13, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> > Being on 2.6.4 kernel, I understand why you would not want to go back :)
> > -- its nice and fast and just rocks, (I have a laptop and with all the
> > ACPI stuff its great)
> >
> > However Is there a need though to be on 2.6 for your machine?  could you
> > take Mandrake 10 back to the 2.4 kernel tree?
> > (Not being a mandrake fan I am not sure if that is possible or will
> > work)
> 
> I could, but why should I have to? To me its just another example of
> bringing things out too early when there is a lack of drivers etc. for the
> core OS
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