This brings up an interesting question -- one that I had at deployment 
time (almost 2yrs ago) and recently revistited when we had a drive 
failure in our CAS.

Where is the kernel source?

IIRC most of the software (save for the admin interface) is open source 
software, and either GPL'd, BSD or LGPL'd (even the Click router 
module), but where are all the sources? Perfigo balked when I asked for 
the source so I could build the driver for my 3com fiber card (which 
they later provided me a binary only driver). Honestly though, this is a 
huge encroachment on the merits of the GPL and I was hoping that with 
the Cisco aquisition they would show some character and release the 
sources (at least the kernel source) so that we can build drivers for 
hardware (like the PERC/MegaRaid controllers found in Dell servers). 
Even if it was offered as an auxillary CD -- I wouldn't mind, but the 
fact that its not included -- and, almost unobtainable through normal 
channels -- leads me to question why Cisco/Perfigo doesn't want us to 
have it. Anybody else here have any conversations with Cisco, about 
maybe even the possibility of getting the Kernel source (with whatever 
mods perfigo has made over the stock kernel)? And does Cisco have any 
plans for upgrading to a more modern release or distribution (CentOS? 
RHEL?)?

William Doyle wrote:

> Good Day,
>
> We just upgraded to 1850's (no raid) for our servers. Installation was 
> a breeze. The only problem was that the nics were not automatically 
> recognized. The troubleshooting steps on the CCA website worked fine 
> except that the drivers were not located where they said.
>
> According to the website this is the command: cd 
> /lib/modules/kernel-2.4.9-perfigo/drivers/addon/driver where driver is 
> the name of the driver.
>
> This directory did not exist in ver 3.5.5. I can't remember exactly 
> where I found them, but  /lib/modules/2.4.9-perfigo/kernel will get 
> you close (just locate e1000.o.new and that's it). I didn't check for 
> autosensing, choosing just to hard code speed/duplex since I was in 
> the modules.conf file anyway.
>
> Bill Doyle
>
>
>
> At 06:07 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>> We're going to be adding to our CAS deployment.
>>
>> We're a Dell Shop
>>
>> Currently the only shipping Dell product that Cisco recommends is the
>> 1850 (with LSI SCSI card, NO RAID or SATA)
>>
>> Anyone done a fresh install (recently) on 1850's?  Any hints?  (I've
>> already made sure they have a floppy drive) 
>
>


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