Re: Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.
I'm a newbie also; when I installed the sources, they weren't unpacked.
bzip2 -dc kernel-sources-2.2.19pre17.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
should do this for you. Think you don't need the headers...
Best regards
Gaz
HdV@DTO.TUDelft.NL gravada:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to recompile the kernel so I can use the ltmodem drivers. This is
> a first for me, so I still have to figure out a loot of things. Please, bear
> with me.
>
> The docs said that the kernel-headers and/or sources are needed. So I check
> the kernel version with unuma -r, which told me that I am running 2.2.19pre17.
> Knowing that I invoked
>
> apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19pre17
>
> and also
>
> apt-get install kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17
>
> Thinking I had succesfully loaded the needed libraries I then fired up the
> build_deb script that comes with the ltmodem sources. Bummer, it tells me it
> can't find the headers in
>
> /usr/src/linux
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17
> /usr/src/kernel-linux-2.2.19pre17
>
> Indeed ls shows me that there are 2 directories underneath /usr/src:
>
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17-compact
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17-idepci
>
> Which one of those two do I use? Uname doesn't specify either of them.
>
> There's also a file kernel-source-2.2.19pre17.bz2 in /usr/src I presume these
> are the kernel sources, but shouldn't they be unpacked somewhere? If I need to
> do that myself, where should I put them?
>
> Sorry to pester you guys with all these questions. I tried finding the answers
> on the net and in the doc directories, but was unsucessful.
>
> Grx HdV
>
> P.S. I have found the kernel how-to, but that didn't answer my questions.
>
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