Borries Demeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I basically agree with this procedure, however, this is not really the
> answer to the question he asked, and as purchasing goes, it may take a lot
I'd dis-agree, if he paid Dell and they didn't even bother to enable
SMP he'd be better off just going somewhere else.
> longer to get Dell to fix the problem than to do it yourself. Eventually,
> you will need to know how to do this anyway, so why not right now?
Few people _need_ to know how to compile a kernel. Given that they
are supplied with version that is good enough from their supplier,
esp. if they are testing it.
[snip advice]
> Next, run:
>
> "make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install"
Something that might help is...
ftp://ftp.and.org/pub/linux/kernels/compile_kernel
It's just a simple script that goes into /usr/src/linux and does the
above magic for you.
I wrote it because I couldn't be bothered doing it all each time,
maybe it'll be usefull to others.
--
James Antill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you go to the Third World and find 100 people who have never tasted ketchup
before, you find out two things: one is that people don't actually like tomato
ketchup, the other is that they dislike all ketchups equally. -- Rob Young.
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