I think all the comments you've gotten so far assume you are running make menuconfig from /usr/src/linux
Is that the location you are running this from? That's the error you get when you try from the wrong place. I hope this helps. Bryan Kane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >Cory, > >Thanks for the reply. Yea, sorry I wasn't very >precise. This is the error statement that I got: > >make: ***No rule to make target 'xconfig'. Stop. > >FYI, the files in my linux (/usr/src/linux-2.4.8) >folder are: > >kernel.config_new >kernel.config_old >.config.old >.depend >.hdepend > >And three folders: > >arch/ (nothing within this folder) >include/ > (with these files: > include/linux/modules/nls_utf8.stamp > include/linux/modules/nls_utf8.ver ) >scripts/ > (this folder has the following files: > kconfig.tk* > tkparse* > tkcond.o > tkgen.o > tkparse.o ) > > >When I built this PC, I did a standard install of >Mdk8.1. I was trying to learn how to compile the >kernel a few months ago, and although I don't remember >what I did precisely, I screwed things up quite a bit. > I re-installed Mandrake and since then things have >worked fine, with a few exceptions. > >Bryan > > >--- Cory Petkovsek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bryan, >> >> You must have gotten something. At the very least >> you should have gotten >> something like: >> bash: make: command not found >> >> Please describe what your error message is. If you >> get a whole page full of >> information either post it, or filter through it and >> try to find something >> useful, such as ....ncurses lib not found... >> >> Also, is there anything in /usr/src/linux? Have you >> installed the kernel >> source packages first? >> >> Cory >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:23:52PM -0700, Bryan Kane >> wrote: >> > I'm trying to compile my kernel (to examine some >> of my >> > network settings, such as iptables), but when I >> type >> > 'make xconfig' or 'make menuconfig' at >> /usr/src/linux, >> > I get nothing. I did a 'locate' on xconfig & >> > menuconfig and got no results. Did I screw >> something >> > up somewhere along the line? I thought most >> Linuxes >> > have xconfig or the like. >> > >> > As my subject line says, I'm using Mandrake 8.1 >> > download edition. My goal was to get iptables >> working >> > (v 1.2.5), and I kept getting "you need to update >> your >> > kernel" and "Module is wrong version" type errors. >> > >> > Any thoughts anyone? As you can see, I'm kind of >> a >> > newbie at this. >> > >> > Bryan >> > >> > ===== >> > ================================== >> > Bryan Kane >> > Eugene, Oregon >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > ================================== >> > >> > __________________________________________________ >> > Do You Yahoo!? >> > Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes >> > http://finance.yahoo.com >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Eug-lug mailing list >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug >> _______________________________________________ >> Eug-lug mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > > >===== >================================== >Bryan Kane >Eugene, Oregon >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================== > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes >http://finance.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >Eug-lug mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > -- Bob Crandell Assured Computing When you need to be sure. Voice 541-689-9159 FAX 240-371-7237 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com Eugene, Or. 97402 _______________________________________________ Eug-lug mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
