As far as I can tell from my recent attempts to rebuild a Mandrake 8.1 kernel, the only thing that didn't work was PCMCIA. There is a .config file in the /usr/src/linux directory. You should make a backup copy of that first and then do a 'make mrproper' to make sure the source tree is setup properly for a build. I wasn't able to get the modules to build until I did that. The mrproper will remove the old .config file and you should probably do a 'make xconfig' and load the saved config file which is supposed to be the same as the kernel that Mandrake makes for it's distribution. I didn't have much luck with that config so I basicaly visited each of the windows that 'make xconfig' gave me picking out the more obvious choices. Ben Scott mentioned that there is a variable in the Makefile in the top level source directory called 'EXTRA_VERSION' which can be set to something like 2.4.8-26mdk-1 to diffentiate the modules from the ones that are already loaded in /lib/modules. You might want to consider making a backup copy of the modules tree before experimenting so that you have a way to get back to those modules should the new ones you build have a problem.
The other thing is that you need to take the new kernel and add it to either the lilo.conf file and re-run lilo or use the grub update mechanism. I took the lilo.conf route which was quite painless. There is a pretty decent set of pages on building Mandrake kernels at www.mandrakeuser.org Again, I never quite turned the corner on the PCMCIA support but as far as I could tell, everything else worked. The PCMCIA stuff is well documented in the PCMCIA-HOWTO document should you want to try that but unless you are building a kernel for a laptop it won't be necessary. -Alex P.S. I still have an item on my list to ask the Mandrake folks exactly how one would build an identical kernel to the one they deliver in their distro. The other thing is that there is quite a lot of kernel documentation but to some extent it's confusing because there is just so much of it... Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster! "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous The closest I'm going to get to retirement is when I put new Michelins on my car! On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Bill Studley wrote: > If I recompile the kernel using the source code from kernel.org, > what can I expect to be broken when I reboot? I'm currently > using Mandrake 8.1 with a 2.4.8-26mdk kernel. > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** > > ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
