I always thought that the "modconf" program would do it all for you? It was pretty straight forward when I installed the same network card.
It seems to do much the same things as insmod, on looking at the man page. I don't think I've done a single thing that has been "straightforward" since i started doing linux.....makes me suspicious. Perhaps i should stick to being a musician.
Jenny,
Whilst a musicain is a good occupation, stick with the computer. You will find that almost no linux distro's are the same, every manual I find online seams to refer to linuxconf, I don't have this. I do all the edits etc... manually. I don't know exactly how debian handles drivers but I have a /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file which I edit.
You may find some handy info at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Thanks
D
PS if you get any more probs give me another call. PPS how's earth? --- Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
I always thought that the "modconf" program would do it all for you? It was pretty straight forward when I installed the same network
card. It seems to do much the same things as insmod, on looking at the man page. I don't think I've done a single thing that has been "straightforward" since i started doing linux.....makes me suspicious. Perhaps i should stick to being a musician.
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All,
I have done what I thought was impossible. I have managed to get Linux to crash! I was simply writting an email and sudenly the Harddisk went into major hammering mode and the machine locked up. I had to do a hard reset!
I had thought this was impossible!
Thanks
D
PS I thought crashing a sun box running solaris was impossible to crash but managed that one recently as well!
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I have done what I thought was impossible. I have managed to get Linux to crash! I was simply writting an email and sudenly the Harddisk went into major hammering mode and the machine locked up. I had to do a hard reset!
I had thought this was impossible!
Under 2.0.38 I could regularly crash by: cd ssh-1.2.27 make clean make -j About 250 copies of gcc later....... Haven't tried this in a while, anyone got 2.4, and some recent backups? ;->
All,
I have done what I thought was impossible. I have managed to get Linux to crash! I was simply writting an email and sudenly the Harddisk went into major hammering mode and the machine locked up. I had to do a hard reset!
I had thought this was impossible!
Thanks
D
PS I thought making a sun box running solaris was impossible to crash but managed that one recently as well!
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I once had a linux machine freeze totaly whilst compiling a kernel.....
So it's not just you who has acheived the impossible :-)
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-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of David Freeman Sent: 21 April 2001 12:54 To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: [Alug] I have achieved the impossible.
All,
I have done what I thought was impossible. I have managed to get Linux to crash! I was simply writting an email and sudenly the Harddisk went into major hammering mode and the machine locked up. I had to do a hard reset!
I had thought this was impossible!
Thanks
D
PS I thought making a sun box running solaris was impossible to crash but managed that one recently as well!
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David Freeman wrote:
All,
I have done what I thought was impossible. I have managed to get Linux to crash! I was simply writting an email and sudenly the Harddisk went into major hammering mode and the machine locked up. I had to do a hard reset!
I had thought this was impossible!
Linux can be fairly unstable depending on lots of factors! (but still more stable than Windows) usually it will be some dodgy modules in your kernel (you are running a stable kernel aren't you?).
Loads of our developers used kernel 2.3 when it was being developed (prior to it becoming 2.4) and they had no end of problems, things like NFS being broken and also hard disk corruption. There are also some very strange bugs in different versions of the kernel although an upgrade to the latest version can fix them, it can of course also cause more new problems though.
The final thing I could suggest is that maybe you have some faulty hardware? or are you overclocking your machine? I had a Solaris box fall over the other week and after a thorough examination came to the conclusion that a stray cosmic ray must of hit it and caused it to bork!
Adam
Adam Bower wrote:
David Freeman wrote:
All,
I have done what I thought was impossible. I have managed to get Linux to crash! I was simply writting an email and sudenly the Harddisk went into major hammering mode and the machine locked up. I had to do a hard reset!
I had thought this was impossible!
Linux can be fairly unstable depending on lots of factors!
usually caused by 'users' ;)... sorry, I couldn't resist....
The final thing I could suggest is that maybe you have some faulty hardware? or are you overclocking your machine?
I can vouch for that, had an overclocked cyrix 686 (the really early one that you coudl fry an egg on) and that was always failing over under linux or windows.. I set the clock back to where it should have been and it was then stable for the rest of it's life... also I have had some very bad experiences with dodgy simms/dimms.. it's a nightmare trying to fault find though....
I can honestly say I haven't had a kernel panic on 30 machines I look after in the last 3 years... maybe I'm just lucky ;)
Sz
--- Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk wrote:
Adam Bower wrote:
David Freeman wrote:
All,
I have done what I thought was impossible. I have managed to get
Linux
to crash! I was simply writting an email and sudenly the Harddisk
went
into major hammering mode and the machine locked up. I had to do
a hard
reset!
I had thought this was impossible!
Linux can be fairly unstable depending on lots of factors!
usually caused by 'users' ;)... sorry, I couldn't resist....
What's called in the trade a possible error between keyboard and chair!
The final thing I could suggest is that maybe you have some faulty hardware? or are you overclocking your machine?
Dodgy hardware, no I paid for it all from a reputable supplier. Oh you didn't mean that, It could be the two network cards and the fact I only have one spare PCI slot left!
I can vouch for that, had an overclocked cyrix 686 (the really early one that you coudl fry an egg on) and that was always failing over under linux or windows.. I set the clock back to where it should have been and it was then stable for the rest of it's life... also I have had some very bad experiences with dodgy simms/dimms.. it's a nightmare trying to fault find though....
I don't currently over clock but I might consider it.
I can honestly say I haven't had a kernel panic on 30 machines I look after in the last 3 years... maybe I'm just lucky ;)
In reply to a bet to crash a solaris box my self and a colleague wrote a program which made the machine fall over quite spectaculaly. The basic idea was - fork, fork, fork, fork ad infernitum. This it did quite well till it finally couldn't cope and fell over!
Thanks
D
Sz
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