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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hello Pluggers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not so long ago I crashed Suse 7.0 box (that'll
teach me to mess around in root). After messing around with Debian 2.1 for a
while and deciding it was all a bit too grown up for me I decided to go back to
the relative safety of Suse. Everything seemed to install okay, but YaST2 would
vanish every time I tried to detect the modem. (I wrote to the list some time
ago with this same problem. I wrote down the solution - something to do with
writing a script in /etc/rc.dialout I think - but have since lost it. I was too
embarrassed to ask again so I thought I'd try to work it out myself.) I could
identify the problem using wvdialconf but could not find the solution despite
checking various help pages and websites. So I then thought maybe if I install
the 2.4 kernel the problem would be solved - I've read that 2.4 has better
hardware detection/ more device drivers. But despite following the instructions
in PC World faithfully it just won't install.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> If I type the
command:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2># bzip2 -cd linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.bz2 | tar xvf
-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It comes back with a list of pathways all followed
by "could not open file: directory does not exist"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> If I type the
command:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2># bzip2 -cd linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.bz2</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the process takes off but runs away on its own.
When I tried to umount /cdrom I was told that it was busy. Eventually I had to
kill off the suspect processes until I could umount /cdrom. The final message I
get when running the latter command is as follows:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>bad_addr:</FONT></DIV>
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PRINTK ("ncp_d_validate: invalid address
%lx\n",dent_addr);</FONT></DIV>
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goto out;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>bad_align:</FONT></DIV>
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PRINTK ("ncp_d_validate:unaligned address
%lx\n",dent_addr);</FONT></DIV>
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goto out;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>}</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>static struct dentry</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was in /cdrom/kernal directory when I issued
these commands. I'm sure that I've made a relatively simple error but I'm still
a newbie to command line. I'd be appreciative to anyone who can help me move
beyond command line L plates.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ta,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sol</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>