kernel 2.4.6: serial support and kernel panic?

[Andreas W. <and...@le...>]

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Andreas W=FCst <an...@ma...> am 16.07.2001 21:49:03

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Thema:    kernel 2.4.6: serial support and kernel panic?


Hi

I have successfully been trying the kernel snapshot 2.4.6 from #http://=
linux-apus.sourceforge.net/snapshots/#
tonight (though only for 20 minutes which I think isn't representative =
at all,
remembering the days I have been using kernel 2.4.4 without problems at=
 all for
hours!!).

I decided to download it because there has recently been a lot of talk =
about
it on this list. Roman pointed out, that the VM problem has been fixed =
(if I'm
right), which belonged to the crashes Ken Tyler had on his machine. Now=
 I am
not quite sure if this fix also belongs to me, remember I am the guy wi=
th the
'floating point code used in the kernel' kernel panics.

At a first glance, it runs 'fast and stable'. I could even run glint, w=
hich
gave me faster gfxs. To test if the kernel panics had gone, i started
netscape, of which I think gives quite a heavy workload to the system a=
nd on
which I had most of the kernel panics (once even with emacs, not runnin=
g x at
all). It ran, the only problem has been that I couldn't connect to the
internet with my modem. wvdial tried to connect, the modem responded fo=
r a
short time (some flickering LEDs), but nothing more. I am wondering if
something with serial port is broken in 2.4.6 or it is compiled as a mo=
dule
(which I think is not possible, because of the flickering LEDs, there m=
ust
have been a connection to ser port from the kernel).

But if it is compiled as a module, that's quite bad, because I can't
communicate with my CSPPC SCSI disks under Linux. And because of no mod=
em
connection, I can't download them directly...

So, does the kernel fix really belong to my 'floating point code' kerne=
l
panics and is ser communication broken or just a module? (Michel has al=
ready
been very friendly to compile MS-DOS partition table support into the k=
ernel,
so I could at least boot the machine!).

--
Kind Regards,
Andi W.

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