[wplug] Desperately seeking SuSE - My RH8 dilemma

[Vanco, Donald]

Coutch, Robert wrote:
> Now for my next (and hopefully last problem).
> 
> I have the cryptoloop module on RH8 but no cipher module for twofish.
> The only decent info on the net about this is at the kerneli.org site
> where they offer some kernel patches.
> The information here is vague and I have probelms getting an rpm
> kernel update going, let alone trying
> to patch and compile the kernel.
> 
> I could not find the cipher-twofish.o module floating around on the
> net. 

	Have you looked at:
	http://www.ingorohloff.de/twofish.html
	and / or:
	(the authors) http://www.counterpane.com/twofish.html


> I have two options:
> 
> 1 - Someone points me to an idiot's guide to the kernel.
	I have yet to see anything that does not require quite a bit of
reading if you really want to know what you're doing.  There are several
guides if you just want to be walked through the steps.  See The Linux
Documentation Project 

> 2 - Someone tells me how to take the loop_fish2.c source from my SuSE
> 7.3 sources and compile it as a kernel module for RH8.
	Just get the source from above....


> The second choice "sounds" easier but I am more than clueless here.
	That's what makes it fun!

> In the meantime, I've been searching the net and reading a LOT of
> how-to's. 
	Sadly, there's not much else to do if no one here can help.

	If you're feeling really ambitious you can get the source tarball,
generate a spec file, and use rpmbuild to create binary & source rpms to
submit to Freshrpms.  It's quite easy after a bit of reading up on
RPM(build).  Looking at an existing spec file from a Red Hat source RPM will
help you a great deal.

Don