Re: laptop: my own kernels don't work
Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com> writes:
> 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'.
Not all laptops. My Thinkpad 600 is quite happy with a 2.2.11pre2
bzimage.
> >
> > 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.
The PCMCIA HOWTO covers installation
http://www.ssc.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO-2.html
or, if you installed doc-linux-<html|text>,
/usr/doc/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.gz
Gary
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