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I installed Slackware Linux about a month ago using the kernel version
1.2.x.  I then upgraded to kernel version 1.3.41.  Since then, I have
been crippled.  I tried to re-compile the ftape and iBCS modules.
Both failed.  The FTape module complains that NR_FTAPE_BUFFERS is not
defined.  It isn't.  I specified to add tape support when compiling the
kernel, but the NR_FTAPE_BUFFERS macro has not been defined.  So I
just looked up a standard value, and added it by hand.  FTape.o compiles
now, but when I "insmod ftape.o" it complains that ftape_big_buffer
is not defined.

When I try to compile the iBCS module, I get an access to a non-existent
element in "current" in the signal.h file.

I compiled ppp support into the kernel, but when I type pppd, it
tells me there is no support for ppp in this kernel. Yes, I checked
to make sure I included it in the kernel config.  And I did install the
kernel (other changes are apparent).

Can anyone point me to the source of my problem?
Both the FTape and iBCS packages I am trying to compile are the latest
from sunsite::/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/sources.

-Wolf

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: I installed Slackware Linux about a month ago using the kernel version
: 1.2.x.  I then upgraded to kernel version 1.3.41.  Since then, I have
: been crippled.  I tried to re-compile the ftape and iBCS modules.
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Are you aware that odd numbered kernels are experimentals?
(i.e. in a version number 1.x.anything, if x is odd, it's a beta of sorts.)

Those kernels quite often have bugs and are sometimes unstable.
If you're not in the game to find bugs and hack at kernel code, you'd
probably be better off staying to a 1.2.x kernel.  1.2.13 is probably the
kernel you want.  

-David.

: : I installed Slackware Linux about a month ago using the kernel version
: : 1.2.x.  I then upgraded to kernel version 1.3.41.  Since then, I have
: : been crippled.  I tried to re-compile the ftape and iBCS modules.
: ...
: <clip, clip>

: Are you aware that odd numbered kernels are experimentals?
: (i.e. in a version number 1.x.anything, if x is odd, it's a beta of sorts.)

: Those kernels quite often have bugs and are sometimes unstable.
: If you're not in the game to find bugs and hack at kernel code, you'd
: probably be better off staying to a 1.2.x kernel.  1.2.13 is probably the
: kernel you want.  

: -David.

David,

I need the 1.3 kernels because I need the Disk Manager support.  I
realize the 1.3.x is experimental, but these problems do not seem
like experimental bugs, they seem like I messed something up somewhere.
I'm wondering what sort of mess-ups I could have done to cause these problems.

-Wolf

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Real programmers don't document their code.  If it was hard to write, it
should be hard to understand.
                         STEVE WOODFORD
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