Re: Kernel compile problem

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

> Silly me, I meant prepatched. The site is ftp.fsmlabs.com if anyone is
> interested although I'm probably the only freak around who's playing with
> it.

Yep. I certianly mean to have a look at rtlinux soon, because some of the
work I'm doing is relevant, but it's not something I've used before (rtems
is my rt os of choice ;). 

> I'll have another go with the kernel compile - I wonder if it needs a
> bzImage rather than a zImage? I'm sure last time I made a big kernel though
> it told me and din't make an image at all.

No, if it needed bz'ing it would say. I can't believe that the kernel
image would be big enough to require bz'ing. Probably a good idea to go
through all the individual options again and double check them.

> Another subject:  I've finally got the linux boxes talking to each other
> well enough to be able to run a networked game across the two terminals but
> I've noticed a strange phenomenon (hell, that word slowed down my typing!!).
> The two computers are known as 'brass' and 'steel', brass being the 'new'
> one running RH6.1 and steel having RH5.2. When I start up, if I try to
> 'ping' brass from steel, it doesn't work - I just get total packet loss.
> However, if I ping steel from brass it works fine and then ...strange
> phenomenon....I can ping brass from steel. Like brass has to apologise
> before steel will talk to it!  Any ideas what is happening or what I need to
> poke around in to get it to work both ways first go?

Never heard of that before. Possibly a dodgy network card?? Possibly dodgy
configuration.. mm, no idea really!!!

Cheers,

Alex.

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