September 1, 2004
Upgrades from prior versions.
UPDATES are NOT supported for all versions of SL . This is NOT something that we changed.
UPDATES will NOT work from anything except RedHat AS 2.1.
Cisco Aironet 350 wireless ethernet card
If you install Windows patch xxx in addition to upgrading the windows driver it also upgrades the firmware in the Cisco 350 wireless card. Info from Cisco follows. The "good" firmware is 4.25.30 or 1.6.7 or 1.5 . If it is 5.20.17 then it is the BAD firmware. I got these firmware versions from the Cisco website.
"Recommended repair is a firmware down-grade of the Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA network interface card as Cisco has not released a updated Linux for the upgraded firmware as of yet."
Xircom ethernet
Will panic the kernel.
3com 905 ethernet (Not the A or B or C version)
Seems like orginal 905 does not work but 905a does.
Make sure Plug-n-Play if OFF in your bios. This has made some 905's work.
Also seems like there is a kernel bug tickled by kudzu. So to get this card to work you will need to turn kudzu off.
chkconfig --level 35 kudzu off
Packaging of 32 bit compatibility libraries
Is different than original RH ones (RH just copies over packages from 32 bit architectures which results in overlapping files from 64 and 32 bit packages and duplicated package names: a situation which is unmanageable by updaters like yum or apt)
As an example:
RHEL3: glibc-X.Y.x86_64.rpm glibc-X.Y.i386.rpm
SL 302: glibc-X.Y.x86_64.rpm glibc-32bit-X.Y.i386.rpm
32 BIT COMPATIBILITY MODE
Support for 32 bit compatibility mode is very limited at this time and includes only basic compatibility for running statically compiled 32 bit binaries. (only 32bit glibc is provided). Development support for 32 bit mode is NOT PROVIDED.
XFree86 and ATI
After the successful install (again using the graphical X-windows install) and after what appears to be a successful boot up, I get a blank screen and just sits there.
Both the Radeon and Nvidia driver in this XFree86 4.3.0 release does not detect that you are using the digital port of flat panel monitors.
The easy thing to do is plug into the analog port until you can get past the install.
sgi_fam with tcpwrappers(/etc/hosts.deny)
Error messages /var/log/secure such as
Jan 22 12:33:33 systemname xinetd[25122]: FAIL: sgi_fam libwrap
from= Jan 22 12:33:33 systemname xinetd[3819]: START: sgi_fam pid=25123
from= Only solution so far is to change /etc/hosts.allow to allow sgi_fam
with
fam: ALL
This could be a security risk so you must decide.
redhat-config-packages
/usr/X11R6/lib
The "final link" to each of the libraries is missing.
Should be
libX11.so.6.2 <- libX11.so.6 <- libX11.so
But is
libX11.so.6.2 <- libX11.so.6
Solution is to install Xfree86-devel. This rpm will make the
missing links.
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