Rebuilt kernel => no consoles?

[David Abrahams]

Alan Mckinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> writes:

> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 08:02 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Alan Mckinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> writes:
>> 
>> > I found it odd that you didn't have the same choices as me, so I looked
>> > closer - the selections I mentioned all depend on EMBEDDED, so I must
>> > have selected this somewhere... odd. These are vanilla sources patched
>> > with the suspend2 stuff from gentoo (I don't have ubuntu's sources
>> > handy).
>> >
>> > Anyway, my last kernel update has also removed my consoles, and it has
>> > something to do with framebuffers. I'll tell you the solution once I've
>> > fixed it - drop me a reminder in a few days if I forget to report up :-)
>> 
>> Thank you; I will.  Any idea about why my wireless doesn't show up
>> either? 
>
> Do you mean the wireless driver itself doesn't show up? 

No, the driver shows up but the card is missing from any interface
where it can be activated or configured.  Device manager (for what
that's worth) shows "Unknown (0x4227)" for that PCI slot, which is
just like the kernel where the card shows up and works, but in the
patched kernel is missing the "WLAN interface" sub-entry.

> If so I have no idea - I could never get the vanilla ipw2200 to work
> at all so now I use the drivers direct from that project at
> sourceforge. 

I'm using whatever comes packaged with the dapper kernel sources,
which should work.

> It requires that the 802.11 stack and the ipw2200
> driver be deselected in .config, 

*de*- selected?  You mean, to keep the ones that come with the kernel
 from taking effect?

> and now I can't find where they
> should go in the menu..
>
>>  Or about that alarming NMI/faulty RAM message?
>
> Nope, never heard of this one either. sorry.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-August/091730.html

has some details.

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Dave Abrahams
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