[Voyage-linux] Re: R6040 Support in Voyage 6.1

[Raimund Berger]

Max Bridgewater
<max.bridgewater-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi Punky,
>
> Thanks for the hard work. It is a shame that DMP is selling something
> that seems to me to be broken and is not even willing to support those
> like you who are providing free support to their customers. Voyage
> Linux is one of the rare Linux distros that actually supports this
> seemingly broken piece of hardware with the most recent kernel.
>
> The really appalling and outrageous thing is that they even dare to
> recommend Voyage Linux to their customers. Am i the only one upset by
> this? What do other DMP customers in this list think?

I'm not a customer, but a quick googling brought up a posting about a
similar problem with this driver with kernels 2.6.26/27 (the author
first erroneously writes 6080 but corrects that in his followup):
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/17/228

There's little more to find though, which I would have expected if that
was a common problem. Not sure what to think of this.

You could inquire on the kernel list yourself though or maybe try
another kernel version - which might be a little hassle if you use a
voyage version depending on aufs. But if you don't compiling your own
kernel based on the voyage kernel config is pretty much straightforward,
at least as long as you don't need any further kernel patches.

That's by the way why I still stick to voyage 5.0.2 and upgraded that to
Lenny because easy builds of custom kernels is an absolut must for me
(currently running 2.6.27.25 on a WRAP board).

Good luck, R.