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Re: Debian and Atheros Wireless card

Hello Everyone,
Thank you very much for all your help in installing the kernel source. But I am having a small problem. Initially I had the 2.4.27-1-386 kernel installed. And the kernel source I downloaded was 2.4.27 (Only one available in this series). I followed all of the instructions and then I re-boot my machine. At that point I noticed that there were two new kernels installed: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27 and another similar one with recovery mode.
However, when I select this kernel, it shows a kernel panic and the message is cannot log into hda6.
I then logged into the existing kernel and found that the essential difference is that the line, 
" initrd		/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386 "
seems to be missing. This is a file in my /boot/ directory and a similar file for my new kernel seems to be missing. 

This is just my guess, I may be completely wrong :)

So I am not sure what is going on here and if I did something wrong.
Sincerely,
Abhishek.


But, once it resarts, it


From: Matej Cepl <cepl@surfbest.net>
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian and Atheros Wireless card
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:52:48 -0400

claytonk@163.com wrote:
> The basic process is:
> 1. unpack kernel source in /usr/src
> 2. ln -s <kernel-source-directory> linux
> 3. cd linux

I would add
3a. cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config # copy the current configuration 
        3b. make oldconfig # process all changes from the current
                           # (presumably old) kernel to the new one.

> 4. make menuconfig (then choose kernel options, some of which CAN result
> in a kernel that won't boot--be careful!)
> 5. make-kpkg kernel_image   (you will find the result in /usr/src)

I would two more parameters to make-kpkg

        5. make-kpkg --revision somename.1 --rootcmd fakeroot kernel-image
(it makes distinct name of the kernel-image .deb package for the current
computer)

> 6. dpkg -i /usr/src/<name-of-new-kernel-image>
> 7. reboot

Best,

        Matej

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