Re: [hylafax-users] Brooktrout or Eicon

[Chris Jones <c.jones@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 16:51, Lee Howard wrote:
> Comtrol RocketModem drivers, MultiTech ISI drivers, etc.  Why whould 
> Eicon or BrookTrout kernel hardware drivers be any different?

Because they're not in the vanilla kernel tree. It's still not a huge
problem, but Darren already covered why in his reply :)

> That said, it is sometimes (often) possible to use a module built for 
> one kernel version on a different kernel version.  But I don't think 
> that's really advisable.

I did try that with the Eicon binary modules and more recent RH kernels,
but it just caused a lot of oopsing when I forced it to load things ;)

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Jones
Technical Systems Manager
Systemes de la Technologie Applique Ltd.
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 323922   Fax: +44 (0) 1273 388334



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