Steve Linabery wrote: > OK, somewhat pursuant to my other post about trouble with the e1000 driver for intel gigabit nic: > > I've always been reluctant to try to use a vanilla kernel with redhat distros (including fc2 in that category). I don't want to break parts of the distro that are depending on some strange tweak that rh people have contributed to the kernel. > > I mean, I know how to compile a kernel, but just don't want to cause more trouble than I cure. > > Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated as always. How about rolling your own RPM?: 1. installing SRPM for kernel-source package, whatever RH provides as latest 2. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES replace kernel-2.4.xx.tar.gz with latest from ftp.kernel.org 3. vi /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel.spec (might have a different name but definitely a ".spec" file. You'll have to replace all occurances of the kernel version with your new version. Example: RH ships 2.4.20 lets say you want to use 2.4.27 from kernel.org in vi: :%s/2\.4\.20/2\.4\.27/g 4. rebuild the rpm: cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS rpm -ba kernel.spec newer versions of RPM I believe use: rpmbuild -ba kernel.spec 5. Finished RPM will live in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386: cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 rpm -i kernel-2.4.27.i386.rpm don't for get to run lilo or edit your grub.conf and reboot -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list