Hi again list -
Thanks to Sean O'Connell, Wendy Fong, & A. Mahendra Rajah. My earlier
question had been about how to rebuild a kernel to reflect my new DE500-BA
network card. I had never rebuilt the kernel before, and I don't have the
documentation CD-ROM available to me (it's on campus, 100 miles away at
Berkeley, while I'm out here in the wilds at a research station).
I now have the network card working; I did a quick ftp test between two
local computers, and got an average of 40mbps transfer rate (with a peak of
73 mbps and a low of 27 mbps). That's a darn sight better than the 7 to 8
mbps I was getting before!
Alan's response worked for me and is representative of the hints sent to me:
>The short version is:
>
> 1. Boot the system using genvmunix:
>
> >>>boot -fl s -fi "genvmunix"
>
> This will boot the system to single user, using the
> file /genvmunix. This is a generic kernel that has
> instances of all the support drivers, allowing it to
> find any supported device.
NOTE: I didn't actually boot to single user, I just typed in: boot -fi
"genvmunix"
> 2. Check and mount the local file systems. I think the
> easiest way to do this is to run /sbin/bcheckrc.
>
> 3. Run doconfig. It should be in the path of the root
> account, so just type "doconfig". This will use other
> commands to generate a new configuration file from the
> devices found by /genvmunix and then rebuild a new
> kernel from this configuration file. You'll still need
> to specify any kernel options that you use, which as
> Packet filter, ISO 9660 support, etc.
>
> 4. When doconfig is done it will indicate where the new
> kernel is. It is generally wise to make a copy of the
> current one, before overwriting /vmunix with the new
> one:
>
> # cp /vmunix /vmunix.save
> # cp /sys/HOSTNAME/vmunix /
>
> 5. Reboot.
Thanks,
Colin
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Received on Mon Jan 31 2000 - 19:43:05 NZDT