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32 <p>The kernel 2.6 provided by the grml system is based on the
33 latest stable(!) vanilla kernel (taken from <a
34 href="http://kernel.org/">kernel.org</a>) we consider 'useful
35 and working'. The grml-kernel includes <a
36 href="#patches">several patches</a> and <a
37 href="#modules">modules</a>. If you experience any problems
38 please don't hesitate to <a href="/contact/">contact us</a>!</p>
40 <h2>grml / grml-medium / grml-small 2008.11</h2>
42 <p>The 2008.11 releases of grml provide kernel 2.6.26:</p>
45 grml@grml ~ % uname -a
46 Linux fuchsiatard 2.6.26-grml #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 26 21:41:43 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux</pre>
49 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-kernel.git;a=blob;f=config/config-2.6.26-grml;hb=HEAD">kernel
50 configuration of 2.6.26-grml</a> is available online.</p>
52 <h2>grml64 / grml64-medium / grml64-small 2008.11</h2>
54 <p>The 2008.11 64bit releases of grml provide kernel 2.6.26:</p>
57 grml@grml ~ % uname -a
58 Linux grml64 2.6.26-grml64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 26 21:48:08 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux</pre>
61 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-kernel.git;a=blob;f=config/config-2.6.26-grml64;hb=HEAD">kernel
62 configuration of 2.6.26-grml64</a> is available online.</p>
64 <p>Notice: grml-small does not ship any further extra kernel
65 packages besides the core kernel packages and lacks speakup
68 <h2><a name="patches"></a>Kernel Patches of 2.6.26-grml[64]</h2>
70 <p>The kernel 2.6.26-grml[64] is based on 2.6.26.8. Find more
71 information about the patches used in the grml-kernel <a
72 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-kernel.git;a=blob;f=2.6.26/README;hb=HEAD">in
73 the grml-kernel repository</a>.</p>
75 <h2><a name="modules"></a>Modules shipped with grml 2008.11</h2>
77 <p>Additionally to the patched kernel you'll find some extra modules on
81 <h3>Package grml-kerneladdons</h3>
83 <p>This package contains release specific kernel modules where no extra
84 debian package exists yet. The following drivers are included:</p>
87 <li>acerhk: give access to the special keys on notebooks of the Acer Travelmate by <a href="http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/">Olaf Tauber</a></li>
88 <li>pcan: driver for low cost CAN-Hardware by Peak System by <a href="http://www.peak-system.com/linux/">Peak-System.com</a> [the grml-team uses this hardware in the <a href="http://www.robocup.tugraz.at/">Robocup-team @ TUG</a>]</li>
89 <li>r1000: device driver for <a href="http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2">Realtek Ethernet Controllers</a> (like pci-x r8168)</li>
90 <li>sdricoh_cs: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdricohcs/">Linux driver for Ricoh Secure Digital and MMC Card Readers</a> that announce themselves as Ricoh Bay1Controller pcmcia device</li>
91 <li>r5u870: <a href="http://lsb.blogdns.net/ry5u870/">Ricoh R5U870 Webcam Driver</a> for Linux</li>
97 <p>Drivers for Texas Instruments' ACX100/ACX111 wireless network chips. This
98 includes DWL-[G]520+ PCI, DWL-[G]650+ CardBus, GL-2422MP mini-PCI, DWL-120+
102 <li><a href="http://acx100.sourceforge.net/">acx100.sf.net</a></li>
107 <p>Driver for the Atmel AT76 based USB WLAN adapters. Currently, the
108 driver has no promiscous, monitor or station mode and no support for
109 libpcap, i.e. it does not work with Kismet or Airsnort and it cannot act
110 as an WLAN access point. This is a restriction imposed by the current
114 <li><a href="http://at76c503a.berlios.de/">at76c503a.berlios.de</a></li>
119 <p>atl2 is the Linux Base Driver for the Atheros(R) L2 Fast Ethernet
120 Adapter. The the Atheros(R) L2 Fast Ethernet Adapter is present in a
121 few low cost Asus laptop systems, such as the Asus Eee PC. </p>
124 <li><a href="http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/">people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/</a></li>
129 <p>Another Unionfs implementation, check out <a
130 href="http://aufs.sourceforge.net/">the feature section on the project
131 homepage</a> for further details.</p>
134 <li><a href="http://aufs.sourceforge.net/">aufs.sf.net</a></li>
140 <p>Linux driver for the Broadcom BCM5700 series Ethernet Network
144 <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/bcm5700-source">bcm5700@debian</a></li>
151 <p>RAID 1 over TCP/IP for Linux. Drbd is a block device which is designed to
152 build high availability clusters by providing a virtual shared device which
153 keeps disks in nodes synchronised using TCP/IP. This simulates RAID 1 but
154 avoiding the use of uncommon hardware (shared SCSI buses or Fibre Channel).
155 It is currently limited to fail-over HA clusters.</p>
158 <li><a href="http://www.drbd.org/">drbd.org</a></li>
164 <p>Exmap is a memory analysis tool which allows you to accurately determine
165 how much physical memory and swap is used by individual processes and shared
166 libraries on a running system. In particular, it accounts for the sharing of
167 memory and swap between different processes.</p>
169 <p>Notice: exmap isn't shipped by the grml 0.7 Live-CD because it requires
170 too much space. Run 'apt-get update; apt-get install exmap' to install
174 <li><a href="http://www.berthels.co.uk/exmap/">www.berthels.co.uk/exmap/</a></li>
181 <p> The gpsca video for linux (v4l) driver, provides support for webcams
182 and digital cameras based on the spca5xx range of chips manufactured by
183 SunPlus, Sonix, Z-star, Vimicro, Conexant, Etoms, Mars-semi, Pixart and
184 Transvision. The gspca driver is a rewrite of the well known spca5xx
185 v4l kernel module from the same author, Michel Xhaard. </p>
188 <li><a href="http://mxhaard.free.fr/">mxhaard.free.fr</a></li>
193 <p>The aim of the project is to develop an open source iSCSI
194 target with professional features, that works well in enterprise
195 environment under real workload, and is scalable and versatile
196 enough to meet the challenge of future storage needs and
197 developements. We provide this kernel module for backwards
198 compability, you might want to use the iscsi driver named stgt
199 of 2.6.20 as well.</p>
202 <li><a href="http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/">iscsitarget.sourceforge.net</a></li>
208 <p>The Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection driver. grml ships
209 ipw3945d (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Daemon) and ipw3945-ucode (microcode for
210 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection Adapter) as well. (Notice: the
211 driver is not an extra module package but has been patched into the
212 grml-kernel itself.)</li>
215 <li><a href="http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/">ipw3945.sf.net</a></li>
221 <p>The primary goal of the IvyTV Project is to create a kernel driver for the
222 iTVC15 familiy of MPEG codecs. The iTVC15 family includes the iTVC15
223 (CX24315) and iTVC16 (CX24316). These chips are commonly found on Hauppauge's
224 WinTV PVR-250 and PVR-350 TV capture cards. (Take a look at <a
225 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=tips">'Hauppauge PVR250'</a> in the
229 <li><a href="http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page">ivtvdriver.org</a></li>
236 <p>The QEMU Accelerator Module increases the speed of QEMU when a PC is
237 emulated on a PC. It runs most of the target application code directly
238 on the host processor to achieve near native performance. It is very
239 useful when you want to run another Operating System (for example
240 Windows) on a Linux desktop.</p>
243 <li><a href="http://www.qemu.org/">qemu.org</a></li>
248 <p>linux-uvc is a kernel module that supports some standard devices
249 that implement USB Video Class. Currently supports Logitech
250 Quickcam Fusion, Logitech Quickcam Orbit, Logitech Quickcam Pro for
251 Notebooks, and Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000.</p>
253 <h3>linux-wlan-ng</h3>
255 <p>linux-wlan-ng is a set of drivers and utilities that is intended to
256 provide the full range of IEEE 802.11 MAC management capabilities for
257 use in user-mode utilities and scripts. The package currently supports
258 the Intersil 802.11b Prism2, Prism2.5, and Prism3 reference designs for
259 PCMCIA, PCI, and USB. Additionally, the package includes support for the
260 PLX9052 based PCI to PCMCIA adapter with a few different PCMCIA
263 <h3><a name="loopaes"></a>loop-aes</h3>
265 <p>loop-AES can be used to encrypt disk partitions, removable media, swap space and other devices. It provides measures to strengthen the encryption: Passphrase seeds,
266 multiple hash iterations, MD5 IV and use of alternating encryption keys.</li>
269 <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/loop-aes/">loop-aes.sf.net</a></li>
274 <p>LZMA is a compression algorithm, based on the famous Lempel Ziv
275 compression method. The main characteristics of the algorithm are very
276 good compression, fast decompression, use of lot of RAM for compression
277 and low usage of RAM for decompression. LZMA provides high compression
278 ratio and very fast decompression, and is used in combination with <a
279 href="#squashfs">Squashfs</a> at grml.</p>
282 <li><a href="http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.htm">7-zip.org</a></li>
285 <h3>madwifi(-ng)</h3>
287 <p>Driver for Atheros-based Wireless LAN devices - the Multiband Atheros
288 Driver for WiFi (madwifi). (The madwifi drivers are the ones known as
292 <li><a href="http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/">madwifi.sf.net</a></li>
293 <li><a href="http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/GettingMadwifi">madwifi-ng</a></li>
294 <li><a href="http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian">Debian-Docs</a></li>
299 <p>Some vendors do not release specifications of the hardware or provide a
300 linux driver for their wireless network cards. ndiswrapper provides a linux
301 kernel module that loads and runs Ndis (Windows network driver API) drivers
302 supplied by the vendors.</p>
305 <li><a href="http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/">ndiswrapper.sf.net</a></li>
308 <h3>netfilter-extensions</h3>
310 <p>The following netfilter extensions derived from netfilter.org's
311 patch-o-matic-ng repository are included: IPV4OPTSSTRIP, ROUTE
312 (IPv4 only), TARPIT, ipv4options, set, u32.</p>
316 <p>The AFS distributed filesystem. AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing
317 cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are
318 provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative
321 <p>Notice: the module is named libafs.ko on grml 0.7. Running 'modprobe
322 openafs' works because of a symlink, but the loaded module is named libafs
323 anyway so run 'rmmod libafs' to remove it.</p>
325 <h3>qc-usb-modules</h3>
327 <p>The qc-usb-modules package contains a kernel module to drive Logitech's
328 USB-based QuickCam Express webcam and other cameras with similar
332 <li><a href="http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/quickcam/quickcam.html">www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/quickcam/quickcam.html</a></li>
337 <h3>realtime-lsm</h3>
339 <p>Scripts for handling the realtime Linux security module. It sets up the
340 system to grant realtime permissions to applications in the realtime
344 <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=realtime-lsm">realtime-lsm@google</a></li>
349 <p>This is a linux device driver for RDC Semiconductor R6040 PCI Fast
350 Ethernet Controller which can be found in Vortex86SX - Fault Tolerance
351 x86 System-on-Chip.</p>
354 <li><a href="http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/Vortex86SX/">www.dmp.com.tw/tech/Vortex86SX/</a></li>
361 <p>Linux driver for wireless 802.11b and 802.11g cards that are based on
362 the Ralink rt2400 and rt2500 chipsets. grml provides drivers for rt2400,
366 <li><a href="http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">rt2x00.serialmonkey.com</a></li>
371 <p>Low-level drivers for the software modems produced by Smart Link Ltd. It
372 supports PCI and USB models.</p>
375 <li><a href="http://www.smlink.com/main/item.php?ln=en&item_id=84&main_id=32">Smart
376 Link. Introducing the First Soft ADSL over Ethernet</a></li>
379 <h3><a name="speakup"></a>Speakup</h3>
381 <p>Speakup is a screen reader/speech access system for the GNU/Linux
382 Operating System, used by people who are blind.</p>
385 <li><a href="http://www.linux-speakup.org/">www.linux-speakup.org</a></li>
388 <h3><a name="squashfs"></a>Squashfs</h3>
390 <p>Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. Squashfs is
391 intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival use (i.e. in
392 cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in constrained block
393 device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is
396 Via using the module loop it is possible to mount a filesystem file. squashfs
397 is a "loop" with (de)compression (Compressed Loopback Device) and it is
398 possible to mount a compressed filesystem like a block device and seamlessly
399 decompress its data while accessing it.<br />
401 Whereas Knoppix uses the cloop mechanism, grml is based on the newer
402 mechanism squashfs. The filesystem has been compressed into the file
403 "/live/grml.squashfs" and is mounted by the initial init process using squashfs.</p>
406 <li><a href="http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/">squashfs.sf.net</a></li>
413 <p> Sysprof is a sampling CPU profiler that uses a Linux kernel module to
414 profile the entire system, not just a single application. Sysprof handles
415 shared libraries and applications do not need to be recompiled. In fact they
416 don't even have to be restarted.</p>
419 <li><a href="http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/sysprof/">sysprof</a></li>
426 <p>The tp_smapi kernel module exposes some features of the ThinkPad
427 hardware/firmware via a sysfs interface. Currently, the main implemented
428 functionality is control of battery charging and extended battery
429 status. The underlfying hardware interfaces are SMAPI and direct access
430 to the embedded controller.</p>
433 <li><a href="http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/">tpctl.sf.net</a></li>
436 <h3>virtualbox-ose</h3>
438 <p>VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide
439 range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux
440 to run on a Linux system. The <em>ose</em>-version is the Open
441 Source Edition of Virtualbox. The kernel modules for VirtualBox
442 (virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-grml) and the VirtualBox guest
443 addition modules (virtualbox-ose-guest-modules-2.6.26-grml).</p>
446 <li><a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">virtualbox.org</a></li>
452 <p>TrueCrypt manages encrypted TrueCrypt volumes, which can be mapped as
453 virtual block devices and used as any other standard block device. All data
454 being read from a mapped TrueCrypt volume is transparently decrypted and all
455 data being written to it is transparently encrpyted.</p>
458 <li><a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/">truecrypt.org</a></li>
464 <p>Set of loadable kernel modules for the zapata telephony API.</p>
467 <li><a href="http://www.asterisk.org/">asterisk.org</a></li>
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