Re: SC420 problem with Debian make-kpkg (fwd)

[David Jardine <david@jardine.de>]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 04:10:46PM -0700, Chris Gray wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Yes, my issues with the 2.4.28 kernel are similar plus I need to 
> incorporate a module for a VOIP card.
> 
> A couple questions:
> 
> I've been using as my reference in learning how to do this:
> 
>                              Debian Reference
>                              ----------------
>                        Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
>                 Editor: David Sewell <dsewell@virginia.edu>
> 
> I want to be clear about your procedure so have these questions.
> 
> For context, here are the very recent steps from that text used.  The 
> exception is that the text expects one to use fakeroot and I'm logged in as 
> root.  Thus, we have a kernel source loaded and their recommended packages 
> loaded, and:
> 
> Prompt# cd /usr/src                            # build directory
> Prompt# tar --bzip2 -xvf kernel-source-2.6.10.tar.bz2
> Prompt# cd kernel-source-2.6.10           # if this is your kernel source
> # cp /boot/config-<2.4.18-386>.config     # get current config as default

I think there's a vital space missing here. You should be copying

	/boot/config-2.14.18-36

to

	.config

so the line should be

	cp /boot/config-2.4.18-386 .config

> 
> Here, I may have screwed up.  I interpretted "current" in the accompanying 
> comment as my current 2.4.28 config.  In fact, in /boot I do not have a 
> 2.6.10 config file of any kind I don't believe.  That's why I interpretted 
> the text as I did. So, are you saying that instead of the command
> 
> # cp /boot/config-<2.4.28.config 
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10/config-2.4.28.config
> 
> I should use the command
> 
> prompt#cp /boot/config-2.6.10-1-686.config 
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10/config-2.6.10-1-686.config
> 
> I can see where a wrong config file could make a big difference.  I'll 
> check around and see if I did receive this file in the Debian package.
> 
> prompt# make menuconfig                        # customize as one wishes
> 
> I did not run this command, electing to use the default configuration for 
> experimental purposes.
> 
> The reference then instruct one to run:
> 
> make-kpkg clean
> 
> which is where I fail.  Are you saying that maybe this is a wrong 
> instruction or a misunderstood instruction and that I should :
> 
> # make-kpkg --append-to-version "-1-686" --revision 2.6.10-1 |
>    --config config-2.6.10-1-686.config
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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