Quick Fedora Kernel 2.6.0-1.104 Tips

[Anderson Silva]

All,

I downloaded Dave's Kernel, and interestingly enough I was able to get
everything up and running after some tweaking. I am running a Dell
Inspiron laptop with a USB mouse.

I had to do some digging and reading on the kernel documents to find out
some of this stuff, nothing too hard, but just time consuming, so I
decided to share it with the Fedora community.

1. Download it at: 
http://people.redhat.com/davej/FedoraCore2/2.6.0-0.1.14/

I only needed the kernel- , kernel-source and kernel-doc RPMs.

2. Install it:

Use "rpm -ihv" instead of "rpm -Uhv" taht way you should still be able
to boot into the official kernel 2.4.22xx

3. Modify /etc/fstab

add line:
none                     /sys           sysfs   defaults        0 0

and create directory

/sys

4. If you have a CD-write, kernel 2.6 does not need ide-scsi... so get
rid of you hdxx=ide-scsi from /etc/grub.conf

5. Still using OSS for sound, and USB mouse, add the following to
/etc/rc.local

/sbin/modprobe uhci_hcd
/sbin/modprobe i810_audio
/sbin/modprobe ac97

* You can always create the right entries to your /etc/modules.conf

6. To get VMWARE running use the following info:
http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html

7. I also was able to get cisco vpnclient 4.0.3(b) compiled using kernel
2.6

8. If you are using cpu-freq (i.e. for a P4 chip), add to /etc/rc.local

/sbin/modprobe p4-clockmod

* You don't nee dot echo the commands to /proc/cpufreq anymore... the
info now is store at: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/

Quick Fedora Kernel 2.6.0-1.104 Tips

Everything else still works... CD-RW, DVD Player, PCMCIA, USB Memory
Stick, ACPI... 

Hope this helps some people.

AS