[ILUG] Suse 7.3 - Final Thought

[Stephane Dudzinski]

Hi again,

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:14, Niall O Broin wrote:
> Stephane - did you use the 2.4.10-Suse .config file against a stock kernel ?
> The latest kernel I see SuSE delivering is 2.4.16. I've been a bit loath to
> use stock kernels with SuSE for a while now because of the number of changes
> SuSE makes to a stock kernel.

I did use a stock kernel after i made a test one week ago and saw that i
got all of it working fine.

> What did you mean by that exactly ?

Yast2 can check lilo write and confirm that it's happy with it. Silly
enough to say that on my old config (lilo to /dev/sda7), it couldn't
validate my new kernel. I had to write my lilo to floppy in order to
make it work ...

> Glad to see you coming back to the one true faith. Support your local (well,
> same continent) Linux distribution :-)

Well i'm not sure how to understand this one but i'm not German mate ;)

> Could be - AFAIR I made kppp suid to deal with that, but it's been a while
> since I used kppp - I became a wvdial person and then I got ISDN so I said
> goodbye to wvdial too.

I agree with you on wvdial, it just works and finds DNS fine. Might use
it from now on.

Steph