Mike Pfleger wrote:
>
> Mircea Luca wrote:
> <snip>
> > And of course following Ryan Murray's post on how to compile against
> > a specific kernel would do just fine.To be a bit more clear here:The
> > kernel headers that are installed by default in /usr/src are those the
> > libc6 was compiled against and most of the time they don't match the
> > running kernel.To compile against your running kerenl you have to
> > either change the makefile if there is one or in the readme file it
> > should
> > be specified where the headers are expected to be and you can make a a
> > symlink with the specified name to the existing directory.
>
> This isn't clear to me; which Ryan Murray posting was that? That may
> have been before I subscribed to the list; I will have to look through
> the tarballs of previous posts that I've grabbed. When you say most of
> the time they don't match the running kernel; what do you mean exactly?
> If I installed the Storm Linux2000 distro, and did not recompile the
> kernel (at least not yet...) what _does_ match the running kernel? Are
> you referring to the contents of kernel-source-2.2.16-storm.tar.bz2 or
> kernel-source-2.2.16-storm-ide.tar.bz2? What's the deal with these two,
> anyway? I think I'm running the storm-ide kernel, but how do I find
> this out for sure?
>
kernel-ide has the UDMA66 patch ,needed on most of the new MoBo's .
THe running kerenl is the kernel that ships with the distro.Usually
this is not the kerenl against libc6 was compiled.in the specific case
of hail it does match.For example rain(previous Storm release) shipped
with 2.2.12(or 13) as running kerenl but libc6 was compiled against
2.0.36
and the kernel-headers in /usr/src were those from 2.0.36 which
confused
a lot of people.
> I have read the instructions at the scyld.com site, for compiling the
> tulip driver. This expects there to be a bunch of headers in
> /usr/src/linux. There has been some talk of symlinking to the
> appropriate directories, but I'm afraid I don't know which directories
> are used for what in Debian.
basically what I did since I recompile my kernel anyway immediately
after any install was (as root)
apt-get update
apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.16-storm
cd /usr/src
ln -s kernel-source-2.2.16-storm linux
Now you have created the (in)famous /usr/src/linux for which every 3rd
party module is looking .
> Any help in this is greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Mike
>
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