Hey i just got a new mobo, its an Asus A7V600, and when i installed redhat 9 when it boots up I see a line that says unknown VIA southbridge, disabling DMA. anyone know whay this is or how i can fix it?

maybe upgrading to 2.6

man ive tried that but i cant install the new kernel. ive never installed a kernel before. ive looked at different places to see how and they all give me different stuff? any help with that? im running redhat 9

Go to http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Compiling_Kernels and read through the kernel compliation steps throughly.

Make sure the options that you pick are the same as your kernel. This will make the upgrading to the new kernel a little easier.

You probably want to use make oldconfig under the new kernel version directory. This copy over your .config file from your old kernel to the new kernel.

Tools that you need
1) GCC (kernel.org recommends version 2.96)
2) Know how to use tar and how to uncompress bzip2 or gzip files
3) Know how to edit your boot loader (grub, lilo, etc)
4) How to login as su (super user) or root
5) Know how to use the cp command
6) Know how to use mkinitrd to make a ramdisk to load up modules (drivers)
7) Time to kill while compiling.

ok ive compiled it and set it up to what i thought was right but when i boot to the kernel it says theres no init file. is this the initrd.img fiel cuz i made one of those

no init file or did it say no initrd?

List what you have in your boot loader. I hope you just add an entry instead of changing an entry. For grub bootloader the file you are looking for is "/boot/grub/menu.lst". For lilo bootloader, the file you are looking for is "/etc/lilo.conf".

ive got it all settled now except i cant get my wireless nic to work i dont think the 2.6 kernel supports the acx100 driver i got since its already experimental

googled a bit: there you go, hope it works! :

http://luca.pca.it/projects/acx100/

google a little bit and you might find other patches

hey thanks i downloaded the patch but could you tell me how to install it?

ive tried to look for some instructions on that file, didnt find any. It looks like a kernel patch. You would have to patch the kernel, then configure and compile it from the start. (you can use the .config file you used on the one you just made)


Take a look at this: http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/ker...ile-howto.html

You already compiled a 2.6 right? Did it compile without errors? Have you made a test run already?

Ashley

jejeje, the link was on thre download page:

http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php