topic Re: Current HP Lights-Out Drivers not working with last kernel in Operating System - Linux

Current HP Lights-Out Drivers not working with last kernel

Olivier Drouin — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:35:19 GMT

Hi,
I just updated a dl to kernel 2.4.20-24.7smp ( stock RedHat ). hpasm doesnt install correctly on this. Somebody knows when new drivers and agents will be out ??

thanks.

Re: Current HP Lights-Out Drivers not working with last kernel

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:49:03 GMT

Those drivers are verified on a kernel by kernel basis.

HP doesn't even bother to certify them all, just major stable kernel releases.

It could be weeks, could be months. It might not be at all, but that seems unlikely.

SEP

Re: Current HP Lights-Out Drivers not working with last kernel

Olivier Drouin — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:09:18 GMT

Even if a kernel breaks the driver ?

Anyway, I just had to install kernel-source-2.4.20-24.7.i386.rpm and life is good.

Re: Current HP Lights-Out Drivers not working with last kernel

Stuart Browne — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:58:45 GMT

*nod* yup.

the HPASM RPM's are nice enough to re-compile off the kernel source if the current kernel doesn't already have existing compiled modules.

You just have to remember to update the kernel source when updating the kernel in future.