On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > in make menuconfig, turn off anythig you do not need > immediately, like any unknown drivers. (look at makefiles and .config > to know what to turn off). > > I too have a hinote vp 575 laptop and a Xircom ehternet/modem > card, but I have not yet loaded Linux on the laptop -- I'sd > appreciate it if you would keep me posted.
I finally got 2.0.31 to compile --- and that was achieved by deconfiguring a whole stack of drivers. I still don't know why I couldn't compile it with these drivers, but fortunately I didn't need any of them. I think you said before that the kernel source tree should be self sufficient---providing its own headers. What about things like stdio.h etc? Because I think these were the things letting down the side. When I finally did get 2.0.31 to compile - sure enough the Zircom ethernet/modem worked fine. I wondered however whether the problem with getting the Zircom card to work wasn't so much the kernel version, but something to do with these other drivers. I tried compiling 2.0.32 with all the unnecessary drivers deconfigured and sure enough, the Zircom card worked for this kernel too! (Whereas for the out-of-the-box debian 2.0.32 kernel it doesn't work.) I can't see why deconfiguring these extra drivers should make any difference, but it obviously does! Thanks again for your help, and for your info on /usr/include/asm symlinks and the like. Cheers, Mark. __________________________________________________________________________ _\________/___\______/___________________________Mark_Phillips___________/ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ____\__/HE___\__/------APTAIN/ ________________________________ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/______/ /__"To be is to do."__I. Kant___/ ____\__/______\______/_______/ /__"To do is to be."__A. Sartre_/ /__"I am."____________God_______/ /__Jesus did.___________________/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null