2.5.29 / 2.5.31 floppy/apm support
Hello guys!
Just a small question, perhaps it's dump, but I am having big problems currently:
I want to setup a router-only host, which boots from two floppy drives and has 3 network devices.
So far no problem, but when trying to access the ramdisk on the floppy, the old problem exists that the floppy driver does not work with current VFS.
Then I tried to shutdown the host via network, which fails because of apm module cannot be included in kernel in 2.5.29.
So I just wanted to ask, whether someone is working on the floppy and apm problem or if it is / will be solved in 2.5.31 ?
Nico
/* a bit frustrated, because the wifi card only works correct in 2.5 series,
which let 2.5 the only choice.
Perhaps I am gonna use 2.5.24, which was pretty stable and still had apm and floppy support...
*/
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Hi,
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Then I tried to shutdown the host via network, which fails because of apm module cannot be included in kernel in 2.5.29.
Well, have you tried built-in apm module yet?
Thunder
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Thunder from the hill [Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 08:42:50AM -0600]:
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Then I tried to shutdown the host via network, which fails because of apm module cannot be included in kernel in 2.5.29.
Well, have you tried built-in apm module yet?
yes, doesn't work either.
I am currently trying to find a kernel, which supports wifi, floppy,apm. As you can see in my header I downgraded to 2.5.24 right now, but floppy is broken herein, too.
Now I am trying 2.5.20, perhaps this works ...
I am still hoping that in 2.5.31/32 floppy and apm will work again.
Nico
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Hi,
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I am currently trying to find a kernel, which supports wifi, floppy,apm.
Well, you won't find any. The days when the floppy driver still worked we didn't have wifi, I think. Someone just has to adopt floppy to the new vfs api, and we'll be happy. However, most of us are into different things, and some of us don't even have a floppy.
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I am still hoping that in 2.5.31/32 floppy and apm will work again.
unlikely(eGiven someone cares)...
Thunder
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Thunder from the hill [Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 12:37:51PM -0600]:
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I am currently trying to find a kernel, which supports wifi, floppy,apm.
Well, you won't find any. The days when the floppy driver still worked we didn't have wifi, I think.
At least we only had old wi-fi extensions [btw, wi-fi == wireless networks]. I currently tried to run it with 2.4.18 and it works mostly, only when trying to boot on the other P133 system [as described in my other mail], the system only hangs.
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Someone just has to adopt floppy to the new vfs
api, and we'll be happy. However, most of us are into different things, and some of us don't even have a floppy.
Most of my computers even have 2 floppies [my old boss gave them out for free and I thought copying directly would be fast...which is just false! Copying directly with one FDC is about 20 times slower! Possibly a problem with out floppy driver ?]
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I am still hoping that in 2.5.31/32 floppy and apm will work again.
unlikely(eGiven someone cares)...
seems like lkml consists of more people using apples without FDC :(
Nico
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