Slink Install: Kernel Unpacking & Sound Problems

[John Stevenson <John@oa.nl>]

Hello,

I have to problems that I think may be related.

1) I installed slink from scratch on a Dell Laptop (which worked
using hamm) and selected the source for kernel 2.0.36.  When I
went to the /usr/src directory, I fount the tar file had not
been extracted and therefore there was no linux symbolic link to
the extracted tarball.

This suggests that there is a bug in kernel_package somewhere,
as this happened twice.

I extracted the tarball and created the linux link to it (now
this is where I may have missed some steps out in setting up all
the neccessary links)

I then when through the make menuconfig (loading a config file I
had used for hamm to get the sound working as the defaults dont
work for my laptop).  I checked everything was still okay and
when through the make-kpkg stuff, make modules, make
modules_install.

Everything works fine, or seems to from the boot messages, but
this brings me onto problem two:

2) Sound does not work (even though it says so at boot up). 
>From looking round the filespace, none of the sound directories
in /dev seem to exist, which explains why sound wont work.

Is there anything I can do except try install the whole thing
again??

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
John.

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