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[strredwolf]

You know, in setting up WiFi on redwolf I ran into some problems.  If you compile a kernel with gcc 3.2, and then modules with 3.3, modprobe/insmod will not load the modules.  But, if you recompile both with the same version of gcc, you're good and groovy.

Must be a 2.6'ism that is worth it.

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[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

You could use modprobe -f to force load it. It's mainly there to keep you from loading a 2.95.x module in a 3.x kernel, I hear that does evil nasty things to the memory. Or was that 3.x in a 2.95.x kernel?
*shrugs*
Personally the thing I like about 2.6 most is udev.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

I keep wondering about that. What is it and how much memory does it suck up?

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

It's about as large as init in terms of memory foot print, a bit larger. It's a device handler that creates and removes devices as they are found. The big difference between this and devfs is that while devfs is done largely in the kernel udev is done in user space, getting the data it needs from the /sys and /proc. There is a udev vs devfs doc that I could probably dig up for better details.