Re: Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.

Hi John, Sorry to answer your message only now. At the moment I lend my laptop to a (very good) friend of mine, so I haven't been able to go ahead with trying to compile a new kernel. Friday I leave for SANS NS2001, but when I get back I'll continue my effort. On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, John Patton

Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.

Hi, I am trying to recompile the kernel so I can use the ltmodem drivers. This is a first for me, so I still have to figure out a loot of things. Please, bear with me. The docs said that the kernel-headers and/or sources are needed. So I check the kernel version with unuma -r, which told me that

Re: Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:00:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19pre17 and also apt-get install kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 You don't need the headers package if you install the source one... the headers come with the source. I would `dpkg -r

Re: Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.

I'm a newbie also; when I installed the sources, they weren't unpacked. bzip2 -dc kernel-sources-2.2.19pre17.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - should do this for you. Think you don't need the headers... Best regards Gaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] gravada: Hi, I am trying to recompile the kernel so I can use