Re: Problem with netgear card
I never ran mrproper. The last time I did that I had trouble bringing
everything back to a good compile so I don't do that any more. Admittedly,
that was a long time ago and many kernels back.
I have looked in the directory that you said and I have a modversions.h file.
So, I do not know what I can do about this problem.
Brian
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@morgul.net> said:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:40:39PM -0000, Brian Schramm wrote:
> > Ok I am lost. I installed this system that I am running with potato and
> > 2.2.17. I then downloaded the kernel source for 2.2.19 and compiled it
the
> > way I need it for my current system. So, what is this about keeping the
> > .config file and configuring it the same way that the kernel was
configured?
> > Maybe I am lost but I am not sure what that has to do with me compiling
the
> > extra drivers for the netgear card. Do you mean that I need to compile
again
> > to generate this file?
>
> OK, lets start by assuming you have the kernel source in /usr/src/linux/
> When you ran 'make config' (or menuconfig or xconfig, whatever) you
> generated a file /usr/src/linux/.config and
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h modversions.h is the key
> file. When you ran 'make mrproper' you deleted both these files (and
> whatever else was created by make config).
>
> So in order to create /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h, you
> need to re-run make config. You don't need to re-compile the kernel at
> all.
>
> What I recommend doing is saving a copy of /usr/src/linux/.config, so if
> you ever do need to re-generate things like modversions.h in an
> idendical configuration as before, you can just put the file in place
> (/usr/src/linux/.config) and run 'make oldconfig'.
>
> noah
>
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