On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 16:02, Philippe wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 21:13, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > > > > Motherboard : ASUS P4T-F / Socket 423 / Intel 850 Chipset. > > > > Got one here too... same problem. Solved it with RH9 by using > > recompiling the kernel (see the bugzilla report). > Well..recompiling. I am not comfortable at this ... > > Meaning ... > - download source - make xconfig - make dep - make bzImage > - make modules - make modules_install Why not download the redhat source rpm, edit the .config file to compile the floppy driver as a module and generate a new kernel rpm? If you're interested I can describe the steps to make that modification. > But I have to "load fd in the kernel"..where do you choose that ? > And with /etc/modules.conf ? Possible ? The default behaviour for the kernel is to look for modules when a driver is not compiled in. I don't recall having to load it manually, but even if that's neccesary typing "/sbin/modprobe floppy" will load it. > > It's no inherent problem with linux, just RH9 in combination with that > > mainboard. It's definately fixable. > Agree with you ... but for him, the answer is easy : Work on windows, not on Linux. I'm wondering what he will do when he finds a problem in windows... -- Klaasjan Brand <kjb@xxxxxx> -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
