Which kernel source is best?

[John P. <je...@sw...>]

Hello and thank you for all your hard work.

I have been trying to patch 2.2.16 kernels for two days now and have had
little success with the 2000-06-16 patch.

Using the 2.2.216-9mdk release my Adaptec 8945 is never found and has build
errors due to the source being only i386.

On the 2.2.16 from kernel.org, I still don't find the card although the
compile goes fine.  I still just get the no adapters found message in
/var/log.

The card does work under win98 and the SCSI portion is running my 3 drive
md0 RAID0 array which works great.  I don't really need over 3.7MB per
second, but the contiguous space is nice.

Is there some dependency I could be missing?  I have seen nothing about it
so far.

Unless I missed something, it makes no difference whether I make the drivers
modules or not.  What is preferred?

I am dl'ing a 2.4.0-test9 kernel at the moment, please let me know what you
recommend.

As for my background, I am a technician for MicroSearch in Houston.  I build
NT based video editing systems and do light programming on the side. I have
access to just about any 1394 card and many cameras for testing by simply
borrowing one from the office.  I hope to contribute in any way I can.


Thanks,
John Perkins
Houston Texas