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• The latest kernel line ends with kernel 2.6.25, nevertheless it is still maintained in terms of security upstream, and here. There are also security updates to variant-nfs. The webinstaller (see below) is working and will install the most recent version for you.
• USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

• Upgrade from Buffalo's outdated Linux kernel 2.4 to Linux kernel 2.6, on the PPC models LS1, HG, HS, KuroBox, KuroHG, or Terastation (experimental). There's a package with additional files for users on Openlink, Sylver, or Stock Firmwares. Gentoo is supported aswell, altough it hasn't been tested thoroughly yet.

  The kernel variants and extensions are described in the README-kernel-variants.

  The installation procedure is described in README-webinstaller.

  The boot process is described in README-bootloader.

  Firmware flashing currently requires kernel 2.4; you've got to disable kernel 2.6 temporarily for it, as described in the User Control phase section in README-bootloader.

• Overview

  The Linux 2.6 kernel series address virtually all shortcomings of the LS stock kernels: Very good USB support, NFS, routing, quotas, and much more (.config).

  900+ modules are available (overview|details), yet optional. As the "LS core functions", support for mass storage devices and printing, have been compiled into the kernel, you could delete the modules if you were short on disk space.

• Easy Installation

  Do not download the kernel or large parts of the kernel package directly from this server.

  An easy-to-use (yet powerful) webinstaller is provided; please see README-webinstaller for details on the installation process.

  Having run the webinstaller once and rebooted twice, execute

  uname -a

  If you see a 2.4 kernel, it didn't work. Gather information, and get help. While booted into the stock kernel, check the output of

  cat /boot*/boot.log
dmesg | head
lspci
uname -a

  For advanced troubleshooting, check the Recovering_from_Failures section in README-bootloader.

• Maintenance

  Staying Up-To-Date

  There's an RSS feed at http://hvkls.dyndns.org/index.rss which informs about the latest versions and serves as a Changelog. In case you can't access this resource, or are interested in older news, point your browser to http://hvkls.dyndns.org/news/ instead, the Changelog archive. Note that certain MSIE browsers might not display the pages correctly.

  Housekeeping

  If you keep up with development, remove the obsoleted old modules from time to time. Old modules consume a lot of space. Always keep the 2.4* modules, and the 2.6.* modules with the highest version number, and you're on the safe side.

  rm -r /lib/modules/2.6.old.versions-only

• Modules

  Kernel modules (overview|details) can be loaded with

  modprobe modulename

  without the .ko extension, e.g.,

  modprobe fuse

  If you don't need any functionality beyond what you could achieve using the 'original' web interface and want to conserve disk space, you can delete the modules altogether, using

  rm -r /lib/modules/2.6*

• Headers

  The kernel headers are available; see README-kernel-headers

http://hvkls.dyndns.org/downloads/documentation/README-kernel.html