I have been running a wifi network connection on Fedora 19 – Kernel 3.9.7 – and was somewhat fed up with having to keep track of the byzantine magical interface renaming, each time I plugged the wifi dongle into a different usb port.. So… If you prefer good old wlan0 to wlp0s19f2u4 then read on! The older … Continue reading →
Just installed 3.10-rc3 on the test system, and the latest NVIDIA drivers (310.51, and 319.23 beta) both compile OK with the patch mentioned in the posting on 3.10-rc2 https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=738 The – rather complex – 3.10 patch for vmnet works, but there is still no patch for vmblock, which fails to compile: /tmp/modconfig-J79ptB/vmblock-only/linux/inode.c:49:4: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer … Continue reading →
Just updated the Raspberry Pi to kernel 3.8.3, by applying the incremental patch, from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/incr/patch-3.8.2-3.bz2 Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.8.3-pi on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ……………….. # uname -a Linux rgpi 3.8.3-pi #2 Sun Mar 17 20:27:05 GMT 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux Attempts to ‘hack’ 3.9-rc2 by applying the standard kernel.org patch to my Pi … Continue reading →
Just updated the raspberry Pi to kernel 3.8.2, by applying the incremental patch at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/incr/patch-3.8.1-2.bz2 – which worked fine.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.8.2-pi on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ………………… # uname -a Linux rgpi 3.8.2-pi #1 Mon Mar 4 12:23:25 GMT 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux I tried applying the kernel.org 3.9-rc1 patch to the … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to 3.9-rc1, and with the usual softlink*, and (3.8-patched) VMware 9.01, and NVIDIA 310.32, everything compiled OK. * # ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.9-rc1/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.9-rc1/include/linux/version.h $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.9.0-rc1 #1 SMP Mon Mar 4 11:13:53 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. March 4th, 2013.
Continue reading →Just updated the Raspberry Pi from (hacked!)3.8.0 to 3.8.1, by applying the 3.8.0-1 patch at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/patch-3.8.1.bz2 Note that this first incremental patch is in the ‘main’ kernel directory. Only the subsequent ones (3.8.1-2, etc..) will be in the /incr subdirectory.. The patch applied cleanly, and all seems to be working OK: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel … Continue reading →
I have – after some messy hacking – managed to get the Raspberry Pi updated to kernel 3.8.0.. The starting point was the 3.7.1 Pi code, at https://github.com/Olipro/linux-RPi. The kernel.org patch for 3.8.0 assumes the code base is 3.7.0, so I had to ‘revert’ the 3.7.1 patch. The ‘incremental’ patches at kernel.org start with the 3.7.1 – … Continue reading →
Just updated my main system to kernel 3.8, which has just been released.. For VMware (9.0.1) apply the patch already described in a previous article for the 3.8-rc series, plus the version.h softlink: # ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.8/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.8/include/linux/version.h The latest ‘stable’ NVIDIA driver – 310.32 – compiles OK, with this kernel version.. $ uname -a Linux rglinux … Continue reading →
Just updated to 3.7.9, but forgot to do the usual ‘softlink’ for correct compilation of VMware.. # ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.7.9/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.7.9/include/linux/version.h I ran the compilation for the the latest ‘stable’ NVIDIA driver (310.32), but discovered that – with 3.7.9 – this failed, as well! To save time, I had been creating the softlink after compiling the latest … Continue reading →
Just updated the Raspberry Pi to kernel 3.7.7 – incrementally.. See previous posts for details on how this is done.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.7.7-pi on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) …………….. ]$ uname -a Linux rgpi 3.7.7-pi #1 Tue Feb 12 17:17:08 GMT 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. February 12th 2013.
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