Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > mv --force /lib/modules/2.x.x /lib/modules/2.x.x-old (if recompiling the > same version) OR rm /lib/modules/2.x.x Why this step? I guess I don't understand the "force" part. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Colin Tree wrote: > > Hi, > try > make xconfig ormenuconfig > make dep ; make clean ; make zImage > mv --force /lib/modules/2.x.x /lib/modules/2.x.x-old ( if recompiling > the same version ) > make modules ; make modules_install > edit lilo if necessary ( new kernel will

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-13 Thread Colin Tree
Hi, try make xconfig ormenuconfig make dep ; make clean ; make zImage mv --force /lib/modules/2.x.x /lib/modules/2.x.x-old ( if recompiling the same version ) make modules ; make modules_install edit lilo if necessary ( new kernel will be /boot/vmlinuz

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-13 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
J Horacio MG wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > and to my surprise, it only installed modules/fs/ and modules/net ... > what happened to the rest of the modules? This is not doing much sense, > but just in case you can help me with it, I send you again the .config > file I'm using. > > TIA > > Horacio >

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-13 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi Alexander, excuse me for going over this again, but I fear something is going awfully wrong. Alexander Schwartz dixit: ~> On Wed, 12 May 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: ~> ~> > ~> I also install the kernel using a small shellprogram provided (you will ~> > ~> need to switch that to executable using

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-12 Thread Alexander Schwartz
On Wed, 12 May 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > ~> I also install the kernel using a small shellprogram provided (you will > ~> need to switch that to executable using chmod +x) > ~> > ~> The last thing I do is that I run lilo. > ~> > ~> make bzImage > ~> make modules > ~> # rm -rf /lib/modules/2.2.

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-12 Thread J Horacio MG
~> I also install the kernel using a small shellprogram provided (you will ~> need to switch that to executable using chmod +x) ~> ~> The last thing I do is that I run lilo. ~> ~> make bzImage ~> make modules ~> # rm -rf /lib/modules/2.2.5 # Only if you are very sure about this! I wondered whet

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-11 Thread Alexander Schwartz
Hi Horacio, I usually clean my module directory before I reinstall the the kernel modules to get rid of old stuff in there. But beware: If you are using PCMCIA or VMWARE, you will need to reinstall the PCMCIA and VMWARE modules. After I install my modules using make modules_install I run depmo

kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-11 Thread J Horacio MG
I just recompiled kernel 2.0.36, and everything seems to work fine except for the following messages during boot up (same with modprobe). pon seems to be working ok so, what does all this mean? :~# modprobe ppp.o /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R88a5d1d7 /lib/modules/2.0.

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1998-10-10 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:20 +0800, zhaoway wrote: > My question again: why not documented? > I know this surely's been documented somewhere since it's > very important. But I'd like to see it in the modules.txt > or modules.Debian.txt 'cause that's why I will look > for the answer when

kernel and modules compiling

1998-10-10 Thread zhaoway
Hello Debian-user, 20 minutes ago, I did a re-compile of the kernel and modules. I'm new to debian, have played with Linux for more than half a year. Somebody had just talking about kernel compiling here in this list: Is this easy enough? O.K., my experience: Following the instruct