Danny Luker wrote: > > Hi Charles and thanks for your reply.... > > On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:22 pm, you wrote: > > K Montgomery wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:24, Danny Luker wrote: > > > > My first post to this list! > > > > > > > > I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with rieserfs on a 256MB AMD K6 clocking 350 > > > > MHz (older machine) and all is well. I just purchased a Sharp Zaurus > > > > SL5500 and much to my disappointment it does not talk to my Linux box. > > > > I have spent all day trying to upgrade to the 2.4.18 kernel so I can > > > > use the usbdnet patch to make things right with my Zaurus. No joy > > > > however. I followed the README that came with the 2.4.18 source > > > > download. > > > > DO you not need a 'make mrproper or make distclean' defore 'make > > xconfig'?? > > Charles > > I don't know if I do or not. This was not mentioned in the README or the > HOWTO's I'm working from. I don't know what these commands do. Is this > Mandrake specific or just one of those things that differenciates a newbie > like me from real Linux gurus? ;) > > Do I need to do that... I'll try it and see what happens. > > Thanks > Danny > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Danny I am no guru!! But if you do a google search on compiling the kernel you will find lots of info on the subject. They (maybe) all say do a 'make mrproper'. One article says use 'make distclean'. That article said distclean deletes one more file than mrproper. I have no idea what that file does. Either command works for me. After a new kernel compile the new kernel will not work for me if I do not do either mrproper or distclean!!! Charles
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