stupid stuff

GT I.N.C · 07-04-2002, 04:19 AM

ok...this is the problem people....well see.......i just installed red hat 6.2 (yeh its old, but i love experimenting) and i need to get my modem working (motorola sm56) but on the site it says i need kernel 2.4 or at least something close to that....but how can i download that kernel when i don't have a modem

if i can download from windows (which im on now) can someone tell me......this is really stressin me out.....

Thanks for ANY help....

Mik · 07-04-2002, 04:35 AM

Ofcourse you can download from windows. The file will still remain the same file. Redhat 6.2 is quite old though. So if you can get your hands on any newer distribution it would save you a lot of trouble having to figure out old problems which have been solved in newer versions.

GT I.N.C · 07-04-2002, 04:43 AM

yeh true....new distro....but like i said i like experimenting....and also if i could download from windows.....how could i get it into linux, or is there a way to mount windows partions so i can access the driver???

did that make sense lol....

A-dummy · 07-04-2002, 05:20 AM

yeah u can mount windows partition from linux using

mount -t vfat /dev/<windows-partition> <mount-dir>

(this is for FAT partition)

AFAIK kernels before 2.4 dont support mounting ntfs (someone correct me if it's wrong)

Phonics3k · 07-04-2002, 05:27 AM

u can get the kernel from kernels.org they have all excisting kernels

GT I.N.C · 07-04-2002, 05:28 AM

cool so this means i can play all my mp3s and view my pictures and stuff???

MasterC · 07-04-2002, 07:22 AM

Sure, as long as it's fat or fat32 and not ntfs like A-dummy said. Unless you apply the patch, you can't access ntfs with a default 2.2x kernel. Sure, actually there are a few people on here who have to do the same thing. Go to windows to surf, and do everything else in Linux.