Kernel questions
Dear Debs,
I have just succeeded in compiling a new kernel using
make menuconfig
make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
dpkg -i ../kernel-image...
and I have a couple of questions, just to understand things better:
in /boot, I have vmlinuz-2.0.34 and no ``old'' vmlinuz has been saved; I had
copied the original Debian 2.0.34 kernel to Debianvmlinuz-2.0.34 and made a
symbolic link to it from / (everything works with lilo).
Why does the original kernel have permissions -rwxr-xr-x, while the new one
(vmlinuz-2.0.34) has -rw-r--r--?
Now there are the two files System-map-2.0.34 and config-2.0.34: why there
were none before?
My old /lib/modules/2.0.34 had been renamed to *.save and it contained a
subdirectory pcmcia; the new /lib/modules/2.0.34 doesn't. I need to use an
ethernet PCMCIA card (ACCTON EN 2212) which has always worked well with the
original Debian kernel: have I missed anything in menuconfig? Is it created
the first time I use the card (I am presently at home and will try it only
on monday)?
Among the options I think might be relevant to this question, I have
selected CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_MODULES, CONFIG_KERNELD, CONFIG_INET,
CONFIG_NETDEVICES, CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET (is this needed for PCMCIA or only
for internal cards, by the way? In the subsequent entries for card types, I
found no mention of PCMCIAs; in the Ethernet-HOWTO there is no mention about
compiling options for the ACCTON EN 2212: hence I selected no special card
support. Should I have selected CONFIG_NET_ISA? In the PCMCIA HOWTO, it is
said that only networking support should be specified),
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA (not as a module: is that the problem?).
Thank you.
Remo
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| Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute |
| Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI |
| Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland |
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