On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 13:45 -0700, Chris Gray wrote: > Hi: > > In February, I got, from the Dell website, a 2.4.28 kernel and got my > SC420 > working with the ATA disk software built into that kernel and with the right > module for the network adapter. However, I need to add other things like USB > and sound support, and also need to update to a 2.6 kernel for other > reasons. > > I got 2.6.10 from the Debian site via aptitude, got it unpacked, and it's > sitting in /usr/src/linux-2.6.10/kernel-source-2.6.10. There are lower > subdirectories like arch and arch/i386, but you get the idea. > > I should now be ready to start building a Debian package and modifying my > kernel configuration as needed. But, When I issue the command: > > make-kpkg clean > > from usr/src/linux-2.6.10/kernel-source-2.6.10 or any other directory level > from /usr/src on down, I get a message saying > > "We do not seem to be in a top-level kernel source directory tree...". > > The message suggested upgrading the Debian kernel-package which I have done to > no good effect. I also looked through some Debian archives and saw many > messages about people installing modules/drivers that caused this message. > Could there be something about the Dell installation that is causing make-kpkg > to choke? > > Also, I am issuing the make-kpkg clean as root. > > Does anybody know what this message really means and what to do about > it? It seems pretty clear there's something very basic that make-kpkg > isn't finding that it wants, given that not even the clean option works. > > Thanks. > > Chris > Do you have a .config file in usr/src/linux-2.6.10/kernel-source-2.6.10, or anywhere under /usr/src/linux* ? Ionut -- *************** * Ionut Georgescu * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ * Registered Linux User #244479 * * "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix * you can do anything the computer is able to do."
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