[WBEL-users] WBEL n_hdlc config query
Johnny Hughes
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Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:37:53 -0500
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On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 05:12, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> On Thursday 29 April 2004 11:52, neil wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I've just got round to installing WBEL (a much welcomed distro). I
> > intend on trying it out as a replacement for my home gateway. I'm using
> > an Alcatel USB ADSL modem which requires N_HDLC support which isn't
> > compiled in as a module to the default WBEL(RHEL) kernel.
> >
> > Ideally I want to avoid installing the sources and associated compiler
> > to keep things to a minimum. Obviously I haven't messed about much yet
> > (not enough hours in the day!) but I just wanted to know if anyone else
> > has a requirement for n_hdlc and got things working. Maybe I missed
> > something? I'm assuming I will have to recompile the kernel. Any
> > thoughts?
>
> It's in the kernel-unsupported package, which contains modules which are not
> supported under the RHEL support contract. Since Whitebox mimics RHEL here
> it's also in the unsupported RPM.
> So a 'yum install kernel-unsupported' should do it (if you have an SMP
> system it's kernel-smp-unsupported)
After installing kernel-unsupported, you need to rebuild the initrd
image (per the RHEL release notes) with this command:
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install <kernel-version>
see these references:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2003-November/msg00185.html
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/release-notes/as-x86/
(read the Kernel Notes section)
- Johnny Hughes
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On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 05:12, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>On Thursday 29 April 2004 11:52, neil wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've just got round to installing WBEL (a much welcomed distro). I
> intend on trying it out as a replacement for my home gateway. I'm using
> an Alcatel USB ADSL modem which requires N_HDLC support which isn't
> compiled in as a module to the default WBEL(RHEL) kernel.
>
> Ideally I want to avoid installing the sources and associated compiler
> to keep things to a minimum. Obviously I haven't messed about much yet
> (not enough hours in the day!) but I just wanted to know if anyone else
> has a requirement for n_hdlc and got things working. Maybe I missed
> something? I'm assuming I will have to recompile the kernel. Any
> thoughts?
It's in the kernel-unsupported package, which contains modules which are not
supported under the RHEL support contract. Since Whitebox mimics RHEL here
it's also in the unsupported RPM.
So a 'yum install kernel-unsupported' should do it (if you have an SMP
system it's kernel-smp-unsupported)</I></FONT></PRE>
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After installing kernel-unsupported, you need to rebuild the initrd image (per the RHEL release notes) with this command:<BR>
<BR>
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install <kernel-version><BR>
<BR>
see these references:<BR>
<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2003-November/msg00185.html">http://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2003-November/msg00185.html</A><BR>
<BR>
<A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/release-notes/as-x86/">https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/release-notes/as-x86/</A><BR>
(read the <B>Kernel Notes</B> section)<BR>
<BR>
- Johnny Hughes
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