Hi Drew
When the machine started up after the fresh redhat install it started in smp
mode by default (2.4.20-8), and the usb modem wouldn't run. I investigated
and found the e2.so driver for the modem wasn't running so when I tried to
manually install it with insmod e2.so I got a warning that the driver was
only compiled for the 2.4.20-8 kernel. When I restart the computer and
choose the 2.4.20-8 kernel the modem works fine.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Broadley [mailto:drew@iplaynz.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 January 2004 1:18 p.m.
To: 'Lucas Young'; adsl@lists.unixathome.org
Cc: chris.day@dse.co.nz
Subject: RE: DSE XH1148 USB Modem under Red Hat 9 - questions re kernel
versions

Surely it wouldn't have problems specifically with only SMP enabled
different from your Single CPU compiled kernel.

Oh 99.9% of servers I have enabled SMP on, there would be 0 isseues of any
problems with SMP, unless the application has specific SMP routines, even
then it would not be an issue of not working but an issue of unoptimisation.

Are you sure you have not adjusted the SMP kernel any further then just
enabling SMP ?

- Drew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org
> [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On Behalf Of Lucas Young
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:00 PM
> To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> Cc: chris.day@dse.co.nz
> Subject: DSE XH1148 USB Modem under Red Hat 9 - questions re kernel
> versions
>
>
> Hi Guys
> I've just set up Red Hat 9 (kernel 2.4.20-8) and installed the driver
> from the DSE site - it all works great. However I have a dual P3 500
> system and by default the machine would start up running kernel
> 2.4.20-8smp. The driver wouldn't work under this, and upon
> investigating and doing things like insmod e2.so I found out the Linux
> driver is only for kernel version
> 2.4.20-8
> I got it to work by forcing my pc to boot in single processor mode
> Since then there have been kernel updates for RH9, but I still have to
> boot using the old kernel (I'll try the latest single-processor
> version of the kernel today to see if the driver still works) My
> question is, are there newer driver versions on the web somewhere (I
> think it's a conexant driver)? Is there a way to force it to work in
> smp mode? I don't want to sacrifice the power of dual processing just
> because of one driver...
> Any help or links greatly appreciated!
>
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