Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18 [Solved]
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:54:26AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Paul" == Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com> writes:
>
>
> Paul> The given recipe is:
>
> Paul> apt-get install kernel-sources-2.4.18
Also here, the tarball must be untarred, which I figured out myself, and
there must be a softlink
/usr/src/linux that points to
/usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.18,
which was pointed out to me by Griz Inabnit
I am thinking about a wish-list suggestion that would save future newbies
from this, but haven't worked it out yet.
Thanks
> Paul> cd /usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.18
> Paul> make oldconfig
>
> Aha. You are creating a default .config here, which may have
> vastly less modules selected than what you had before. As far as I
> know, the kernel sources .deb does not come with a .config (I have
> not checked the official .debs recently, though)
>
> Perhaps you should cp /boot/config-<whatever version you have> .config
> before running make oldconfig?
>
> Paul> (interactive config work (I chose all defaults) )
> Paul> make-kpkg --revision ofc1.x binary
> Paul> cd /usr/src
> Paul> dpkg -i kernel-images-2.4.18_ofc1.x_i386.deb
> Paul> (reboot)
>
> Paul> I look for ways to compile modules, but all I find is an
> Paul> instruction to cd to /usr/src/modules, but I have no such
> Paul> directory. What should I do to get my modules?
>
> You need to do nothing extra -- you just need to make sure you
> configured everything into the kenrel in the first place. make menuconfig
> should help you determine what is in, ad what is not.
>
> Paul> I've already tried
> Paul> make-kpkg buildpackage
> Paul> and
> Paul> make-kpkg modules_image
>
> Paul> Both return almost immediately, with criptic lines of script
> Paul> code displayed.
>
> These targets are for Debian-pacjkaged third party modules not
> shipped with kernel sources.
>
> Paul> Are the modules sources in a different package? What is its
> Paul> name?
>
> No, the modules are all there. Your .config is the issue.
>
> manoj
>
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