Dear Debs, this is my second list of questions about kernel compilation and modules mysteries. I apologize for repeating part of the content of the previous message, but I prefer to leave it for clarity.
I have just succeeded in compiling a new kernel using make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image dpkg -i ../kernel-image... My old /lib/modules/2.0.34 had previously been renamed to *.save and it contained a subdirectory pcmcia; the new /lib/modules/2.0.34 doesn't: /lib/modules/2.0.34 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 17 10:35 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 17 10:35 fs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 17 10:35 ipv4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 17 10:35 ipv6 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 17 10:35 misc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133 Sep 17 12:41 modules.dep drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 17 10:37 net drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 17 10:35 scsi Moreover, some of these directories are empty, while the corresponding ones for the original Debian-2.0.34 modules were not: e.g., ./cdrom is empty; the old one had 12 files (I have an IBM Thinkpad 760 CD, usually with the floppy drive in it, not the CD drive: is cdrom.o the file I should have here?). Even worse: fs is empty, the old one had lots of files (I have selected only a few with make menuconfig, e.g., nls_cp850 and nls_iso8859_1, but they are not there). Finally, ./net contains -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5364 Sep 17 10:35 bsd_comp.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2064 Sep 17 10:35 dummy.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25620 Sep 17 10:35 ppp.o Hence, something has been written into these directories, after all: by which program? Do I need to do some ``make modules'', ``make install_modules'' or is make-kpkg followed by dpkg -i newkernel.deb enough? I left the original Debian kernel in /boot and I can indeed boot with it using lilo: how does this kernel find (make use of) "its" /lib/modules/whatever if this directory has been renamed to /lib/modules/2.0.34.save? If the kernel does not need to read /lib/modules/2.0.34 in order to work, who uses it? All I need is 1) an ethernet PCMCIA card (ACCTON EN 2212) once a week while at my institute; 2) ISDN from home (not tried yet); 3) the cdrom drive (very rarely, hopefully not for a full reinstall); 4) a dos directory (which works); 5) dosemu (not yet tried). I have selected the necessary compiler options for all of these, I think. My /etc/modules contains the following: #auto cdrom ppp This is my /boot/config-2.0.34 file: is it all right for my needs? Please notice that CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA=y and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y, not m: is this right (neither the PCMCIA, nor the CD are usually in the machine)? # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # # Code maturity level options # # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set CONFIG_KERNELD=y # # General setup # # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_NET=y # CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set # CONFIG_PCI is not set # CONFIG_MCA is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set CONFIG_M586=y # CONFIG_M686 is not set # CONFIG_BIGPHYS_AREA is not set # # Floppy, IDE, and other block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y # # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set # # Additional Block Devices # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set # # Networking options # # CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set # CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_FORWARD is not set # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # # (it is safe to leave these untouched) # # CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set # CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set # CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y # # # # CONFIG_IPX is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_AX25 is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set # # SCSI support # # CONFIG_SCSI is not set # # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m # CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set # CONFIG_PLIP is not set CONFIG_PPP=m # # CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules. # # CONFIG_SLIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set # CONFIG_NET_PCI is not set # CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_MCA is not set # CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set # CONFIG_TR is not set # CONFIG_FDDI is not set # CONFIG_ARCNET is not set # # ISDN subsystem # CONFIG_ISDN=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y CONFIG_ISDN_MPP=y # CONFIG_ISDN_AUDIO is not set # CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_ICN is not set # CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_PCBIT is not set CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_HISAX=y CONFIG_HISAX_EURO=y # CONFIG_HISAX_1TR6 is not set # CONFIG_HISAX_16_0 is not set # CONFIG_HISAX_16_3 is not set CONFIG_HISAX_AVM_A1=y # CONFIG_HISAX_ELSA_PCC is not set # CONFIG_HISAX_ELSA_PCMCIA is not set # CONFIG_HISAX_IX1MICROR2 is not set # CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_AVMB1 is not set # # CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives) # # CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set # # Filesystems # # CONFIG_QUOTA is not set CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y # CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y # CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set CONFIG_NLS=y CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y # CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set # CONFIG_VFAT_FS is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set CONFIG_PROC_FS=y # CONFIG_NFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set # CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set # CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set # # Character devices # CONFIG_SERIAL=y # CONFIG_DIGI is not set # CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set # CONFIG_STALDRV is not set # CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set # CONFIG_PRINTER is not set # CONFIG_SPECIALIX is not set CONFIG_MOUSE=y # CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set # CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set # CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y # CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE is not set # CONFIG_UMISC is not set # CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set # CONFIG_FTAPE is not set CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND=y # CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_RTC is not set # # Sound # # CONFIG_SOUND is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_PROFILE is not set Thank you. Remo
