> Ah! What you have there is a gotcha in the current > Debian kernel-building > documentation. Most dists put a .config in the > linux directory that reflects > the options used to build the distributed kernel. > Debian doesn't. However, > you can get it from /boot/config-2.2.17 (if you are > running Potato). Copy > that file to /usr/src/linux/.config before running > make menuconfig or make > xconfig.
Thanx, this worked. My NIC was recognized and everything works fine. However I did have another question. When I was compiling the kernel, I proceeded as follows: make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install make bzImage quit several times before completing. It would quit in various places, and report an error(signal 4 or siganal 11 if I remember correctly). The exact same thing happened with make modules. I was wondering if you might be able to shed any light on this. Also is the above procedure the best way to compile a kernel in debian? I noticed that you made reference to make-kpkg which wasn't familiar with. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
