hp dv6000 wireless networking - continued

[hulio]

Following up with my continued problem I ran the below

 

[root@localhost hal]# urpmi kernel-source-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb

No package named kernel-source-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb

 

yet

 

[root@localhost hal]# urpmi wireless-tools

Package wireless-tools-29-2mnb1.i586 is already installed

Packages wireless-tools-29-2mnb1.i586, wireless-tools-29-2mnb1.i586 can not be install

 

would a grep command be usefull? I have been working at solving the problem with little sucess, other than learning more unix commands.

 

:wall:

 

? Thank you for your time

 

huilo

[daniewicz]

Your link is not working.

[ianw1974]

Just do:

 

urpmi kernel-source

 

and then choose the one you need from the list presented.

 

EDIT: fixed your emoticon link as it was this rather than link to anything else that daniewicz mentioned.

[hulio]

Just do:

 

urpmi kernel-source

 

and then choose the one you need from the list presented.

 

 

Hello, thanks.

 

This is the result ,I need to reload kernal?

 

 

 

[hal@localhost ~]$ urpmi kernel-source

bash: urpmi: command not found

[ianw1974]

You will need to change to root first using su:

 

su (enter root password when prompted)
urpmi kernel-source

[hulio]

Argh, I am regressing. su, forgot.

In the following dir there are two listings for kernal/linux.

Is ths a problem?

 

[root@localhost src]# ls -l

total 108

drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-08-27 18:53 kernel-linus-2.6.25.14-1mdv/

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88476 2008-08-27 19:02 kernel-linus-2.6.25.14-1mdv.config

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-08-23 18:12 kqemu-1.3.0pre11-15/

drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-08-27 18:03 linux-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb/

drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-08-27 17:51 linux-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb/

 

following http://linuxfornewbies.org/forum/index.php/topic,3.0.htm

 

 

the dir for my machine is

[root@localhost linux-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb]# cd usr

[root@localhost usr]# ls

Kconfig Makefile

[root@localhost usr]# pwd

/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb/usr

 

cp /boot/config-[yourkernelversion] /usr/src/linux/.config && cd /usr/src/linux && make mr

 

cp /boot/config-linux-2.6.24.7-desktop586-lmnb /usr/src/linux/.config && cd /usr/src/linux && make mr

cp: cannot stat `/boot/config-linux-2.6.24.7-desktop586-lmnb': No such file or directory

 

I did edit Makefile, now cannot get into Makefile

 

E325: ATTENTION

Found a swap file by the name ".Makefile.swp"

owned by: root dated: Wed Aug 27 21:33:14 2008

file name: /usr/src/linux-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb/usr/Makefile

modified: no

user name: root host name: localhost

process ID: 6892 (still running)

While opening file "Makefile"

dated: Wed Aug 27 21:35:27 2008

NEWER than swap file!

 

(1) Another program may be editing the same file.

If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two

different instances of the same file when making changes.

Quit, or continue with caution.

 

(2) An edit session for this file crashed.

If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r Makefile"

to recover the changes (see ":help recovery").

If you did this already, delete the swap file ".Makefile.swp"

to avoid this message.

"Makefile" 55L, 1884C

Press ENTER or type command to continue

 

I did ZZ out of vi?

 

Thank you for you time.

[ianw1974]

I have no idea what you're trying to achieve in your last post. You should have just installed the kernel source and done nothing else. Why are you copying the config files into /usr/src for? Just urpmi the kernel-source and then you have no problem.

 

Either that, or explain what you're trying to do if you're trying to compile something?

[scarecrow]

He was probably trying to recompile the kernel- or he got confused about something he read and included a kernel recompile.

Other than that, compiling your kernel as root is a big mistake which will surely lead to trouble.

[hulio]

Hello Ian, that post was not very consise. I was trying to match the dir structure of the example I have been following, http://linuxfornewbies.org/forum/index.php/topic,3.0.html,

to my dir structure.

 

I have run urpmi kernal source

 

rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/mandrakelinux/official/2008.1/i586/media/contrib /release/kernel-rt-source-2.6.24.3-1.rt3.2mdv-1-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm

installing kernel-rt-source-2.6.24.3-1.rt3.2mdv-1-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm from /var/ cache/urpmi/rpms

Preparing... #############################################

1/1: kernel-rt-source-2.6.24.3-1.rt3.2mdv

#############################################

[root@localhost hal]#

[root@localhost hal]# uname -r

2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb

[root@localhost hal]#

 

Now do I need to modify the Makefile?

 

I might have too many kernal versions?

 

[root@localhost src]# pwd

/usr/src

[root@localhost src]# ls -l

total 112

drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-08-27 18:53 kernel-linus-2.6.25.14-1mdv/

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88476 2008-08-27 19:02 kernel-linus-2.6.25.14-1mdv.config

drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2008-08-30 10:21 kernel-rt-2.6.24.3-1.rt3.2mdv/

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-08-23 18:12 kqemu-1.3.0pre11-15/

drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-08-27 18:03 linux-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb/

drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-08-27 17:51 linux-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb/

 

Thank you very much for your continued attention, Mandriva is great and I really like having more control over my computer vs Microsoft. I used unix at work some time ago and am learning still.

 

huilo

[scarecrow]

The "rt" (RealTime) kernels are specially tuned for DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) usage. Their performance for regular everyday usage is plain BAD - avoid them, and install a regular kernel (not an Enterprise one), or, after getting familiar with Linux, try rolling a kernel which suits your real needs in the most convenient way.

[hulio]

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Hello, so do I have too many ?

 

Thanks for the input

 

Huilo

[ianw1974]

Please provide output of this command so we can see what kernels you have installed, and then we can remove the unnecessary ones later and get you the correct kernel-source:

 

rpm -qa | grep -i kernel

 

then we'll remove the rt kernels, and put a standard Mandy kernel in place and work with that one. You will have to boot another kernel to remove the rt kernel, since we'll have problems otherwise, but I'll tell you how when you list what kernels you have installed.

[hulio]

Nice I will let you know tonite

Huilo

[hulio]

This cannot be good,

 

[root@localhost hal]# rpm -qa | grep -i kernel

madwifi-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3.3-5.r3114mdv2008.1

kernel-desktop586-devel-latest-2.6.24.7-1mnb1

kernel-desktop586-latest-2.6.24.7-1mnb1

vboxadd-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-1.5.6-1mdv2008.1

vboxvfs-kernel-desktop586-latest-1.5.6-1.20080729.1mdv2008.1

vboxadd-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-1.5.6-1mdv2008.1

hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-7.68.00.07-1mdv2008.1

kernel-rt-source-2.6.24.3-1.rt3.2mdv-1-1mdv2008.1

nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-96.43.05-4mdv2008.1

madwifi-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3.3-5.r3114mdv2008.1

vboxvfs-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-1.5.6-1mdv2008.1

hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-7.68.00.07-1mdv2008.1

slmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-2.9.11-0.20070813.3mdv2008.1

vboxvfs-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-1.5.6-1mdv2008.1

nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-169.12-4mdv2008.1

unicorn-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3-7mdv2008.1

slmodem-kernel-desktop586-latest-2.9.11-1.20080729.0.20070813.3mdv2008.1

unicorn-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3-7mdv2008.1

fglrx-kernel-desktop586-latest-8.471-1.20080729.3mdv2008.1

vboxadd-kernel-desktop586-latest-1.5.6-1.20080729.1mdv2008.1

nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-71.86.04-4mdv2008.1

slmodem-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-2.9.11-0.20070813.3mdv2008.1

kernel-desktop586-devel-2.6.24.7-1mnb-1-1mnb1

hsfmodem-kernel-desktop586-latest-7.68.00.07-1.20080729.1mdv2008.1

nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-169.12-4mdv2008.1

fglrx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-8.471-3mdv2008.1

nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-71.86.04-4mdv2008.1

unicorn-kernel-desktop586-latest-0.9.3-1.20080729.7mdv2008.1

kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1

nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-96.43.05-4mdv2008.1

kernel-headers-2.6.24-6mnb1

kernel-linus-source-2.6.25.14-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.1

nvidia-current-kernel-desktop586-latest-169.12-1.20080729.4mdv2008.1

nvidia71xx-kernel-desktop586-latest-71.86.04-1.20080729.4mdv2008.1

fglrx-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-8.471-3mdv2008.1

kernel-desktop586-devel-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1

kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.7-1mnb-1-1mnb1

nvidia96xx-kernel-desktop586-latest-96.43.05-1.20080729.4mdv2008.1

madwifi-kernel-desktop586-latest-0.9.3.3-1.20080729.5.r3114mdv2008.1

[root@localhost hal]#

[ianw1974]

[root@localhost hal]# rpm -qa | grep -i kernel

kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1

 

I've filtered the results, and this is what you have in terms of kernels installed that can be removed. Now, what you can do is this, boot your system and choose the standard installed kernel which would be in the list on the lines of:

 

desktop586-2.6.24.7

 

and once you've booted this, we can look at removing the other kernel. There were devel kernels listed, but we'll worry about them when you've just got one kernel installed, and then run the following command once more:

 

rpm -qa | grep -i kernel

 

so we can see what is left. It is important that you boot the correct kernel as I mentioned and remove the other kernel except the kernel-desktop586-latest-2.6.24.7 and kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.7 else you'll never boot your system again. Then, we'll remove the rest of the crap that has been installed which includes the kernel-devel and kernel-source packages that are the completely wrong ones. Remember, a kernel source has to match your installed kernel, so if you have a 2.6.24.7 kernel, you need the same kernel source for this.