Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 209

The following kernel module package was changed internally:
• km_wlan—Various drivers for wireless LAN cards. The madwifi driver for
Atheros WLAN cards from km_wlan was removed.
For technical reasons, it was necessary to drop support for Ralink WLAN cards. The
following modules were not part of the distribution and will not be added in the future:
• ati-fglrx—ATI FireGL Graphics Cards
• nvidia-gfx—NVIDIA gfx driver
• km_smartlink-softmodem—Smart Link Soft Modem
8.3.3 Console Number Change and Serial
Devices
As of 2.6.10, serial devices on ia64 are named based on the order of ACPI and PCI
enumeration. The first device in the ACPI namespace (if any) becomes /dev/ttyS0,
the second becomes /dev/ttyS1, etc., and PCI devices are named sequentially
starting after the ACPI devices.
On HP systems, you must reconfigure the EFI console then you can drop the console
parameter from the kernel boot command. As a work-around, you can try
console=ttyS1... as a boot parameter instead of console=ttyS0....
Find details in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ia64/serial.txt, which is part of the
kernel-source software package.
8.3.4 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL Environment
Variable
Do not set the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable any longer. In the past,
it was possible to use it to enforce LinuxThreads support, which was dropped. If you
set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.x in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, everything breaks
because ld.so looks for glibc and related tools in a path that does not exist.
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