Re: laptop: my own kernels don't work

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 12-Aug-99 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I recently installed slink on a Thinkpad 560 too. I'm using kernel 2.2.5
> however, I think your problem could just be the bzImage. Have you tried
> using a zImage instead? Many laptops have a problem loading the bzImage
> compressed kernels--I believe that the tecra boot disk uses a zImage.
I forgot to consider that.  On my other machine, I have to use a compressed
kernel, but it is not a laptop.  I got into the habit of 'bzImage' and
forgot that laptops can't handle compressed kernels.  The laptop does not
need to have as much compiled into the kernel as the other machine, so I
might get away with plain 'zImage'.

> 
> Anyway, I use my own customized kernel 2.2.5 with pcmcia-modules and
> pcmcia-cs packages compiled from the pcmcia-source package in potato. 
> That's because the version of pcmcia-source in slink does not support the
> 2.2.x kernels. 
> 
Is there a HOWTO on how to compile my own pcmcia modules?  I have the
source but I have never done this before.  I will go into the source and
see if I can find some docs there.

thanks

--
Andrew