Topic: SME7 CentOS and ncpfs and ipx support via modprobe

[samrusso]

Hi All,
Seeing SME7 will be using the very nice centOS, I installed a fresh centos to become acquanted. I found that modprobe ipx and ncpfs was not compiled into the kernel. Has anyone seen if this is infact the case for sme7 Alpha  (I cant download the image to try myself).
Note that you have to install the rpms for ipxutils and ncpfs first, then modprobe seems to not work on CentOS

Any help would be greatley appreciated
sam
sam_AT_rwb.com.au

[gregswallow]

There was some discussion today on the SME7 Bugtracker about a similar issue (look for a bug about appletalk support if you're interested).  There is a replacement kernel for centos with more built-in support in the centosplus directory of any centos mirror - have a look at the readme file here:
http://centos.arcticnetwork.ca/4.1/centosplus/Readme.txt  

SME7 uses the standard kernel, but for desktop use this one might be good.

[CharlieBrady]

Hi All,
Seeing SME7 will be using the very nice centOS, I installed a fresh centos to become acquanted. I found that modprobe ipx and ncpfs was not compiled into the kernel.

"modprobe xxx" doesn't use code which is compiled into the kernel, it loads modules into the kernel.

What you are seeing is that RedHat no longer builds ipx and ncpfs modules into their RHEL kernels. If you want those modules, you'll have to build standalone RPMs containing those modules, or, as Greg says, you'll need to use a different kernel RPM.