Re: U5 - woody (2.4.24) - 3com 3crdag675 - pci wifi adapter - madwifi driver
Where do I get this Debian default .config file? :)
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, JLB wrote:
>
> > > Hey, it's Sunday. Give us a break. :)
> > > (..) Is /dev/hda3 a 'whole disk' partition?
> >
> > That is precisely how I did it. (I have an Ultra 1, BTW.) And, as noted
> > earlier, I enabled ALL (!!!) of the various "advanced partition selection"
> > (or whatever they call it) options, INCLUDING (but not limited to) Sun
> > disklabels... and no dice. :/
>
> Why are you actually compiling your own kernel? Do you really
> need new functionality? And did you leave a working 2.4.18 kernel
> as a fallback scenario? My LILO can boot a 'linux.old' kernel
> if the newly compiled one fails. (Debian's make-kpkg script from
> the 'kernel-package' package is a great help in this.)
>
> Even though the Linux 2.4 code is mature, compiling kernels for
> SPARC is a delicate process. Only since Woody does Debian
> distribute a gcc which is known to compile SPARC kernels out of the box
> correctly (previously, a special beta version of GCC had to be used.)
>
> I have had a few stupid problems myself when I tried to compile
> my own first SPARC kernel. I was happy that some other SPARC-people
> on IRC (#sparc on freenode) helped me. They advised to really use the
> Debian kernel images - it saves quite some time and tinkering.
> However, new kernel images (currently only up to 2.4.24) are only in
> the Debian testing and unstable branches, not in Woody.
>
> If you really insist on making your own kernel, you should NOT
> use the default configuration of the Linux kernel tarball. It is
> not prepared for SPARC use and you will forget important tweaks.
> Instead, start with the Debian default .config from [1], run
> 'make oldconfig' and invoke only new options that you expect to work.
> If that still fails, you are in development land. After all, 2.4.26
> is brand new; you might be doing things that someone has never done
> before. You'd better have the time and attention to file a
> detailed bugreport and help developers finding the bug (or fixing
> it yourself) instead of only crying for help... :)
>
> I hope some of this will help you.
>
>
> Regards,
> Pieter-Paul
>
>
> [1] http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/kernel-config
>
>
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