Re: Kernel woes...!

[Steve White <steve.white-at-lomar.com>]

Patrick,

    I am a newbie to Linux and EMC, and know nothing about compiling or
kernels.  I do have some helpful insight though, since I have used the BDI
on a P120 16 (or 32?) machine, and found that it recognized my (PCI?) 10/100
NIC just fine.  I have not had a chance to DO anything with EMC yet, but the
NIC works fine on my network.  I have used this BDI EMC machine with the
Kdesktop GUI to surf the WEB through my SmoothWall firewall server (and the
NIC) just fine.  The NIC connects to my switch at 100MB  full duplex.
This machine is from the BDI with NO other software installed - just a
"default" install from the BDI CD.  I don't recall the version I used, but
would assume that the current version of the BDI would also support your NIC
and network services.

Good luck,
Steve



PKF wrote:

> This is kind of long, so please bear with me!
>
> Here's where I am.  After finally hunting down a replacement cdrom
> drive, I've finally got the BDI running on a 120 MHz/16Mb system.  I
> have found that the steppers run quite slowly, and the X interface is
> pretty clunky with the video hardware I have, so I'm thinking about
> installing emc/rtlinux on a 333Mhz/128Mb machine I have that's already
> running RedHat 6.2.
>
> On the RH6.2 machine I'm currently running Linux kernel 2.2.12-20, which
> is not one of the versions that Ray's instructions mention.  Not too
> surprisingly, compiling RTL-2.2 anyway and trying to install it did not
> get me a working real-time kernel.  It did get me as far as generating a
> bzImage, but even though lilo claims to have added it as rtl22 it I
> cannot see or select it at boot time.  The real problem is that I have
> only a very vague idea of what I'm doing when it comes to kernels!!   It
> still boots with the old kernel, fortunately, so I'm still up and
> running.
>
> I know what you're thinking: the BDI was invented for you, ya
> bonehead!   That's great, and I'd install BDI on the faster machine in a
> second, except that I'd really like to keep using my ethernet card.  The
> BDI disk that I have contains a kernel that I don't think has any
> support for my card (not to mention my SCSI disk).
>
> So the dilemma is:  do I flail away at compiling a kernel that will run
> on the faster computer, or do I give up and just go with the BDI minus
> the network?  Neither appeals to me very much.  At the moment I'm
> holding out little hope that I can survive another few hours of kernel
> mayhem.  On the other hand, if somebody is running the same
> RH6.2/2.2.12-20 that I am and can shed some light, maybe.
>
> Well, thanks for listening.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>
> ps - Ray, I do have that X shutdown problem with my disk.  Maybe I'll
> wait and try it again with the newer version?