A General Question About Kernel Levels

[Derek Atkins]

Have you tried just upgrading your kernel to 2.2.X where X ==
16,17,18?  That might be your easiest bet.  The 2.4 kernels are still
in pre-release mode (AFAIK).

-derek

Nick Oleksinski <noleks at lsil.com> writes:

> Hi:
> 
> I've come to the point on my PC at home where I want to upgrade the
> Linux kernel in the hopes it will help me get my ethernet card
> recognized by the tulip driver.  There have been suggestions to the
> effect that 2.2 has a problem but 2.4 has worked pretty well.  So be it-
> that's what upgrades are for!
> 
> Now the question I wanted to throw out there is this: how do you all
> feel about mixing installations?  I have SuSE 6.3 installed right now
> which makes my kernel 2.2.13 or 2.2.14 (can't remember offhand).  I was
> thinking of moving up to SuSE 7.0 but I think it may still be kernel
> 2.2.x; I can't find that info on their website.  RedHat version 7 is
> currently only 2.2.16.
> 
> So right now it looks like at least a couple of the big name
> installations are 2.2.x.  My PC doesn't have anything vital on it right
> now so I could try to install a 2.4 kernel and modules in the existing
> environment.  Any thoughts?  Are kernels in a major revision (eg 2.4 vs.
> 2.2) supposed to be backward compatible with older versions?  How about
> X11?  Right now I want to do the minimum that will get my ethernet card
> recognized and then I can work on upgrading other parts of the system
> using my DSL connection.  (By the way, I've been very satisfied in my
> first month with Galaxy DSL, albeit on Win 98.)
> 
> I'm not looking for guarantees, just a feel for what the history of
> Linux has shown in terms of updates.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Nick Oleksinski
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