Axel If you have space for another few gig partition, you could just to the 32 bit install whole. Grub handles booting between alternate Linux partitions fine. If you have already put /home it its own partition, /home could be shared between both installations. MarvS On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Marvin, > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:07:05PM -0400, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: >> Axel, >> >> Re: . Could you please ask for x86_64 support >> Long since done, without response. Expect an indefinite wait. > > :( > >> You can install and alternately boot your System alternately with a >> Intel architechture kernel. Then support for the modem can be >> installed. > > Actually it is an Intel system, but Core 2 is 64 bit. Going 32 bit is > not possible w/o reinstalling the whole system. E.g. running 32 bit > applications on an 64 bit kernel works, so userland can be mixed, but > if the kernel becomes 32 bits, no 64 bit userland aplications can > work, and that would mean a complete reinstall. > > E.g. the modem is dead :( > >> MarvS >> scanModem maintainer >> >> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I packaged up alsa 1.0.17 with the EXPORTs patch for the hda symbols >> > and the agrsm bit for Fedora 9 and 8: >> > >> > http://atrpms.net/name/alsa-driver/ >> > http://atrpms.net/name/agrsm/ >> > >> > Just install {alsa,agrsm}-kmdl-2.6.25.11-97.fc9* package for the >> > kernel modules. The agrsm non-kmdl package contains the agere daemon. >> > >> > Unfortunately I can' even test them as I'm on x86_64 and the kernel >> > modules build against a binary only i386 argmodemlib.o. That means >> > that there is no way to build kernel modules for x86_64 unless >> > Agere/LSI releases argmodemlib.o for x86_64 or even better the sources >> > for argmodemlib.o. >> > >> > Having said that some people here are in contact with LSI and have >> > good feedback. Could you please ask for x86_64 support (and maybe even >> > Cc me)? Thanks! >> > >> > Also many thanks to all people gathering the needed bits and the >> > howtos on this list. I hope the packages I made can help some newbied >> > on Fedora/i386 to get started w/o having to patch alsa/build from >> > scratch. It is also possible to have RHEL/CentOS supported, but I'll >> > leave that until someone actually asks for it, as there is some work >> > involved (the agrsm code needs to build against the alsa 1.0.17 >> > headers and not /usr/include). >> > > > -- > Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net >
