9 Dec 2003 rml   » (Master)

UPS men need to knock loud and long

new laptop:

Caved in and returned to the world of x86 laptops, but boy did I pick a good example of an x86 laptop: I got an IBM ThinkPad T41. 1.7GHz Pentium-M, 1GB RAM, gige, bluetooth, WiFi, and an 80GB hard drive with that rad active drive protection system. So far, everything works in Linux but the built-in WiFi, which is a Cisco Aironet 350 MiniPCI card. I heard it works, but no luck thus far. Battery life seems good, too. Rock.

variable-HZ with 64-bit jiffies:

Updated version of the Variable-HZ-plus-64bit-jiffies patch, courtesy of Tim Schmielau. Fixed a bug and rediffed against 2.4.23.

Fedora-devel now comes standard with a 2.6 kernel:

This is great news and no excuse exists for not running 2.6. Live a little.

It looks like the primary goal of Fedora Core 2 will be to have a 2.6 kernel-based system.

Using udev in Fedora-devel:

So now that Fedora-devel is 2.6-based, it is mighty easy to get udev up and working. Here are a few easy steps I emailed off to linux-hotplug-devel earlier today:
  • download and install the udev rpm
  • download the udev tarball and untar it
  • copy etc/init.d/udev from the udev distribution to /etc/init.d
  • type /sbin/chkconfig --add udev
  • make sure that your /udev is mounted automatically during early boot, if it is not a directory on your root
  • reboot
And voila, it just works. [Except for a few classes of devices that have not yet been ported to the new device model].

The Swamp:

Perfection acheived at The Swamp, last week.

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