Re: Problem with netgear card
Kernel source is not part of the defalt load for Debian. You have to choose
that package after you have the system installed.
Brian
Michael Mueller <bhu5nji@yahoo.com> said:
> Here's a newbie question about the instructions below:
>
> If I load Potato from scratch, will there be a kernel
> source directory that has a modversions.h file in it?
>
> Mike
>
>
> --- "Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@morgul.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0400, Brian
> > Schramm wrote:
> > >
> > > Any other ideas?
> > >
> >
> > The kernel needs to be configured (i.e. make config
> > || make menuconfig
> > || make xconfig must have been run). The
> > modversions.h file you
> > mentioned (in a long list of other garbage, all of
> > which I chopped
> > out) is automatically generated by the configuration
> > process. You need
> > to configure the kernel precisely the way it was
> > configured when you
> > built it. It's generally a good idea to keep a copy
> > of the .config
> > around to make your life easier in cases like this.
> >
> > noah
> >
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