Invalid memory access on boot

altern enrike at altern.org
Fri Feb 11 09:16:49 UTC 2005


Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:12:05PM +0100, altern wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yes this is what i did and I later realised that the old kernel was 
>>there still so i could use it, then i edited yaboot.conf to load the old 
>>kernel by default. Phewww ... now i am trying to get rid of the bad 
>>kernel. Then I downloaded the latest kernel from kernel.org and i would 
>>like to compile it.  All this is because i cannot compile a stupid modem 
>>driver.
> 
> 
> If you happen to need the ltmodem driver, that is already built and
> installed by default.

i need linuxant ppc driver, the one for USB modem that comes with apple 
powerbooks. Are you talking about this one?

> Also, you don't need to download a kernel from kernel.org, nor compile any
> kernel, in order to build a third-party driver.

thats what i would thought, but they told me because of the error i was 
getting that i should try with a new kernel. i am still learning so I 
dont really know much about this.

> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/compile-kernel-module




-- 
enrike





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