Re: I'm confused

["Tassilo von Parseval" <Tassilo.Parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de>]

Hi there,


> Hey,
>
> I'm am so freaking confused about configuring my kernel, it's not even
> funny.  I was reading the sound HOWTO, when it told me to read the
> kernel HOWTO.  I began reading that, and it told me to go to
> /usr/src/linux.  I don't have a directory called /usr/src/linux.  I
went
> to /usr/src, and all that was in their was kernel-headers-2.0.36.
What
> the heck?  I need to get into /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound and run
make
> config, but that directory doesn't exist.  Do I need to download the
new
> kernel?

Well, basically you need the complete kernel source in /usr/src to run a
make menuconfig or whatever. Just have a look in the Debian CDs, you'll
find the kernel source somewhere there. However, there was only Kernel
2.0.36 delivered with my Debian 2.1r4 as the stable one so I downloaded
the current 2.2.14 as source. You get a zipped tar archive so you copy
it to /usr/src and let a 'tar xfz kernelfile.tar.gz' run over it and
after that you should have this /usr/src/kernel.


Grettings,
Tassilo v.Parseval