Summary: The kernel is guts of the operating system. The kernel is the heart of the system that controls the multitasking of programs, the accessing of hardwa...
Summary: I have a Creative Audigy sound card that is now supported yet, but there are some beta drivers that work. After extracting the files, one of the fir...
Summary: So what are the major parts Linux is made of? The kernel talks to the hardware. The shell talks to the kernel. The user talks to the GUI which talk...
Summary: Hi, everyone! Since autumn I try to compile the 2.6.8.1 kernel on my Slackware box without success because of it sais that it cannot mount the root de...
Summary: Hi. I just have some questions about the kernel 2.4.1 .. Every time i make a change on the configuration of it, i have to compile?? How can i test a c...
Summary: Your Ethernet card is not being recognized properly. If the bootdisk does not have a program called "ifconfig" download it then run it. If it comes up...
Summary: Ok so I am currently running kernel version 2.4.8-20mdk. I downloaded a driver for my Promise ATA raid chip. The problem is that it is for up to kern...
Summary: Fedora Linux is one of the "Hippie" or "hate the world" distributions. It does not use common sense with relation to drivers, but rather an idealogica...
Summary: I have a LTwin modem. The system could not detect it using the X-windows. I had to down load the source code of the driver, recompile it and install i...
Summary: Hi m8, I don't use RedHat, but I know someone who doe. He rekons it is, but only if you need cutting edge software for something. My suggestion would ...
Summary: Hi all! Well I have yet another problem. I use Win4Lin to run some Windoze applications (e.g. Visio and PhotoShop) and when I installed Win4lin I had ...
Summary: If you want to run a gui, as well, you might try Redhat 6 (circa 1999), which isn't too old (2.2 version of the kernel; current is only 1 step up, 2.4...
Summary: I forgot to mention, but I have tried to disable the cache in the BIOS setup, tried to boot with several different floppies, and the error message ...
Summary: Okay, firstly you didn't mention your kernel version, what you are compiling, and the compiler version. Fortunately, we probably do not need all that...
Summary: Where to start... Firstly, from the system specs and kernel version (a distro name would be more helpful) I am guessing this box is a server of some k...
Summary: I am running RH 7.3 on my laptop. How should I find out what version of the kernel I am running ? Why do the RH software and the Kernel have different...
Summary: Hi, I am sorta new to Linux, juz trying to move over from Windows. i need some help regarding linux scripting. I am currently trying to write a script...
Summary: Doesn't look like a /dev/null problem... *are* there even /dev/null problems? It's not a real thing.. just a figment of the kernel's imagination. &...
Summary: Linux community Communists? By the Oxford English dictionary the definition of Communism is: "Social system based on common ownership of property, mea...
Summary: Install the package of the kernel source: kernel-source-xxxx.rpm (xxxx=version of kernel sources) But I recomend you to download the last sources wi...
Summary: Ok, let me list what I want to accomplish and then someone can tell me if and how it can be done. 1. Setup a stable (hence Linux) mailserver 2. Have...
Summary: I assume you know that anything with 2.5.x is beta which means there will be bunch of errors... Instead of reporting or asking for help here, you sho...
Summary: I have try to upgrade kernel from 2.2.16 to 2.4.3 by compile source. I follow the step: mv linux linux-2.2.16 gzip -dc linux-2.4.3.tar.gz | tar -xvf -...