2.3 Developement RPMS please.....

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[edgeconsults]

After several hours of testing i realized 2.3 is awesome!  but one problem..  NO DEVEL RPMS?  yup i can't find them anywhere.  2.2rc3 had devel rpms so you could compile your own drivers.  unfortunatly for us techies that like to use bleeding edge hardware we can't use 2.3 because it doesn't support new hardware and we can compile our own drivers from source.

can some one please post 2.3 devel rpms so we can compile our own drivers from source?

for example r8168B v2.0 is not compatible with either 2.2 or 2.3 but atleast in 2.2 we have the ability to install the devel rpms so we can compile our own drivers from source.

At first the realtek r8168B v2.0/8111C works but after a few reboots the driver fails and you get random errors with the SSL cert and then finally the DHCP server quits and then everything goes to hell.

If you are experiencing these issues please post so we can hopefully get some good support on the new release of endian.

thank you

Edwin Solares
Desperatley waiting for devel source rpms......
it would make a good birthday present since today is my birthday too bad i haven't slept trying to get 2.3 to work on new hardware... o well back to 2.2 for now....

[mrkroket]

I'm interested on that driver. I think you could make a virtual machine, install 2.2, install 2.2 rpms and compile.
Once compiled, I imagine it fits perfectly on 2.3.

You'll have a clean 2.3 and a testbench virtual 2.2 for test and debugs.

[den64]

I hope we do get the devel packages for 2.3 soon,, i had to wait quite some time for 2.2 last time.

[edgeconsults]

yeah on using 2.2 to compile a driver did not work since the kernel is different and so are the binary sources among other things.  so it's no surprise when i tried that first it only caused the machine to completely not function.

the only way is to get the development rpms and compile the driver for 2.3.

2.3 does not support 8111C.

it may boot fine at first but after several installs your box will quit.

[edgeconsults]

i did however notice that endian is based off of centos.  as explained here:

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05731

[mrkroket]

Sorry to hear that 2.2 has different kernel.

I have that NIC:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
So far it works fine, 1Gbps full duplex with VLAN support. I have done some reboots and still works well. Do you think it can fail?

I think it uses the /lib/modules/2.6.22.19-72.e18/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko.gz driver. I'm not very fond of that linux stuff.

[edgeconsults]

yeah actually mine did fail.  i worked fine up until i shut it down.

after that i installed a few more time in a few different boxes with same motherboard.

after a few reboots the system was unresponsive via web gui or ssh.

the dhcp server also was not working.  i tried pinging the endian box and nada.

i'm surprised you have 8111/8618B and you are still functional.

have you tried enabling any of the other features?

what motherboard are you using?

[edgeconsults]

i found the issue tracker for the bin utils, headers and make devel rpms.

http://bugs.endian.it/view.php?id=2302

[Mondo1287]

So if you need custom kernel modules, is the only current option to run EFW 2.2?  Are they trying to cripple the community version by leaving out the devel RPMS? 

[robdyke]

Another voice for the Dev tools for 2.3. I'd like to add support for the Agere et131x network cards. Without the tools I am unable to do so.

After some searching I discovered that someone had a problem with lack of support for these cards in 2.2 ( http://old.nabble.com/New-PCI-e-NICs-not-supported-p17554165.html ) I have similar output on my 2.3 installation here that I've just tested today.

[WanWizard]

Make that plus one.

I need to install Hyper-V's linux extensions, I'm now running with legacy NIC's, which is so slow that I have to bin Endian if I can't solve this quickly...

[edgeconsults]

I am stunned and astonished that to date there has been no effort to release devel rpms.  If we are unable to get headers and kernel dev and install make what is the point of releasing 2.3 when you have a limited amount of hardware you can use it on.

I think this is ridiculous....

[lribeyre]

This is very annoying ... 

changed IPCOP for Endian for several purpose : (Hardware compatibility, features - QOS, VPN et more ...- ) and i have lots of issues with 2.3 (IPSEC crash that reboot Endian box or cant add NIC PCI-E -> lack of driver)

I can wait the next 2.3.1 release regarding the IPSEC issue; but at last, provide us the "Devel package" .. for the Hardware purpose.