Less HW support in RH9? Please explain...

Whitehat · 07-04-2003, 11:02 PM

Hey all,

Question:
When I install RH8 on my Toshiba Satellite Laptop with my 40GB Iomega USB HDD attached, it finds it with no propblem. When I install RH9 with the same setup, it does not find the external USB Drive.

Wouldn't you think that Redhat would have more hardware support in a newer version?

Yet another question:
Could it be the fact that the version of RH8 that I installed was off the internet, and the version of RH9 was Redhat9 personal edition (bought off the shelf at CompUSA)?

Hmm....

DavidPhillips · 07-04-2003, 11:22 PM

it's most likely the kernel config that is different.
have you tried to load the usb modules.

probably a good place to start is to check and see what's loaded with this..

lsmod

then this..

cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

then we can go from there

Whitehat · 07-04-2003, 11:35 PM

DavidPhillips,

I appreciate your post, and I know about all that stuff. I was just wondering why they wouldn't have the modules already incorporated into the kernel?

Seems dumb.

DavidPhillips · 07-04-2003, 11:49 PM

So your saying the modules are not there for you hardware, or they are not loaded?

if they are not there then I guess that is pretty lame.

Whitehat · 07-05-2003, 12:04 PM

YO,

They are not there at all. I should have been more specific.

It's like Redhat just says " hey lets take this out of this build, they don't need it ".

What a joke. It's not that I can't get it to work, it's simply stupid that it works out of the box with RH8 but not RH9.

DavidPhillips · 07-05-2003, 06:12 PM

Yep,

I'm using RH 7.3 on my machine.

I'm happy with it. Not sure I want to change yet. I tried 8 and did not like it. Too many changes.

JayCnrs · 07-06-2003, 11:46 PM

I went the opposit way to, tryed RH9 now back to RH8

mhearn · 07-07-2003, 04:53 AM

Regressions happen in all complex pieces of software. Bugzilla is the place for this, not here.

Whitehat · 07-17-2003, 05:19 PM

nice reply mhearn

Great way to help out

Thanks...

martinman · 07-17-2003, 05:23 PM

hey, he has a REALLY good point. live with it or get a NEW kernel anyways.

2.4.20-6 is crappy and far outdated by now in the first place