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Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:09:34 -0500
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Re: RHEL kernel on SL 4.1
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Daniel,

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Connie Sieh wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Daniel Pfenniger wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We have InfiniBand network cards which work with proprietary kernel
> > modules compiled for specific RHEL and Suse kernels.  Does anyone know
> > if it is possible to use and legal to download a RHEL 4 binary kernel
> > on SL 4.1 ?

So you are saying that RedHat has a kernel binary that has proprietary 
kernel modules already in it.  I guess that I did not know that they did 
that.

-Connie Sieh
> 
> It do not believe it is allowed to run a binary RHEL kernel from RedHat on 
> anything other than a RHEL  "subscribed" system.
> 
> > 
> > 	Dan
> > 
> 
> If you can get the modules then your can build the SL kernel yourself.
> 
> -Connie Sieh
>

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