Re: Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

[Samuel Hathaway <lsy@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu>]

Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote:

> In Samuel Hathaway's email, 10-11-2000:
>> iwrigb@tpg.com.au wrote:
>> 
>> Hmm... I ran the following commands...
>> 
>> # cd /usr/src
>> # apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17
>> # bunzip2 kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2
>> # tar -xf kernel-source-2.2.17.tar
>> # cd kernel-source-2.2.17
>> # make dep
>> # find . -name moduleversions.h
>> 
>> The find comes up empty, and the linksys driver still fails to make! Does
>> anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> -samuel
> 
> Samuel: 
> 
>  In order to get moduleversions.h, you need to configure the kernel to
> set versions on all modules before doing a `make dep`.   This can be
> accompliched by `make config` (long), `make menuconfig`, or `make
> xconfig`.  Then you should get moduleversions.h in your
> /usr/src/linux/include directory.
> 
> Michael Janssen 
> CNS Network Assistant

Bah! I tried that, but no such luck. Still no sign of it. Don't know what's
going on here. Maybe it's a problem with the kernel-source-2.2.17 package?
-samuel