On Tuesday 14 December 2004 14:26, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:05:27PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > > On Monday 13 December 2004 12:13, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:27:58AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > > Why do you want the kernel headers on the laptop? If you're building > > > > the modem driver from source, why not build it where you build the > > > > kernel image? > > > > > > I suppose I can. That kernel is not running on the other machine so > > > uname -r will report the wrong location. I guess it depends on how > > > the Makefile finds the kernel headers it's building for. > > > > It should find them from the same place your compile found them when you > > created the kernel. IE, generally under /usr/src/linux > > IIRC, some module build scripts/Makefiles look at /lib/modules/`uname > -r`/build
Right... Which is a link back to the place your (current) kernel was built. Any module you build should be able to override that. > But, I suppose it's easy enough to look over those scripts and > Makefiles before building. > > So I need th ltmodem kernel module, plus I also need a binary driver. > Is that correct? No, there's just the kernel module - once you compile that, you _have_ the binary driver. > Do I still need to use the fix script to modify the > binary so it doesn't complain about my kernel version? I don't recall ever having to do that.. > I think I'll lobby for it to be a law that all HOWTOs include a date. Punishable by death? -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
