To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: SC420 problem with Debian make-kpkg
Resent-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:54:55 -0500 (CDT)
Resent-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:54:55 -0500 (CDT)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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