Re: Gnokii project and Linux kernel

[Pawel Kot]

Hi Pavel,

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:13, Pavel Machek <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue 2010-04-13 08:49:27, Pawel Kot wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 08:36,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Does  Gnokii project depend on Linux Kernel?
>>
>> gnokii uses linux kernel but does not depend on it. It works also on
>> *BSD family, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows. For obvious reasons it uses
>> the OS system capabilities like: USB driver, BT drivers, etc.
>>
>> > I played with Gammu ( similar to Gnokii) that has the same base and found 
>> > out that if I use
>> >
>> > kernel 2.6.18-5-686
>> > it works well.
>> >
>> > But if use
>> > 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686
>> > or
>> > 2.6.26-486-voyage
>
> try finding when breakage started... kernel community takes
> regressions quite seriously.

Actually simple googling for the problem described gives the
resolution: http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/04/24/kernel_2_6_21_hits_gammu/
and indicates that it's not the kernel problem. And I hate googling in
name of users...

take care,
-- 
Pawel Kot