Hi all,
I have been troubleshooting PCMCIA/802.11b networking under SuSE 7.3
on a Mac PowerBook, and learning quite a bit, actually. I'm at the
last step of recompiling this feature into the kernel and have a
couple questions--Aaahhh, my first recompile...'I wish my brother
George were here!' ;0) See below.
Some helpful tips were offered on this list by Ferenc recently. It
took me a while but once I found out how to look at my current kernel
configuration, I followed Ferenc's suggestion and cd'd into
/usr/src/linux and typed 'make menuconfig' (first time I've
done this!)
I found out that the PCMCIA features were not turned on! (no wonder
it doesnt work). So I checked 'yes' to build this into the kernel and
peeked at everything else in there. Cool. Then I followed the kernel
recompile steps as described in the SuSE manual and also my 'Using
Linux' book:
The first 2 steps say "get the kernel source, and prepare the source tree"
I edited the same kernel I have been using (2.4.12) so this was my
kernel source and I'm assuming its correct that I didn't need to
'prepare the source tree.' Thus I began by (step 3) 'configuring the
source' via the curses config screen. I did not get any error
messages:
$ make dep (took about 5 min)
$ make clean (less than 1 min)
$ make zImage (about 10 min)
$ new kernel showed up in /usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/boot/images
$ make modules (22 min)
$ make modules_install (less than 1 min)
So far so good, I cp'd and renamed the kernel-image (vmlinux.elf-pmac
for PPC arch) to /boot/vmlinux.
I cp'd and renamed the System.map to /boot/System.map-2.4.12
(old versions were set aside by manually appending .old to the filenames)
Double checked /etc/lilo.conf
Okay, two final steps according to the SuSE manual: (I haven't done these yet)
"1) Copy the [kernel image] to the root directory of the HFS
partition." (okay, my linux boot partition, but there was never a
kernel image there before?)
"2) Then enter 'boot hd:9, vmlinux.elf-pmac root=/dev/sda6' at the
OpenFirmware to boot."
Hmm. They appear to be talking about the Mac's OF? This is a hot
potato I haven't played with much under MacOS because I didn't want
to risk damaging my machine ;0) but I know how to boot into OF...
Are they asking me to do this through the Mac's OF, or do they mean
OF under Linux?
It sounds like I should not rename the kernel to just 'vmlinux' (once
I copy it into my HFS boot partition) because the OF command is going
to be looking for 'vmlinux.elf-pmac', right?
This seems odd because my current YAST2 automagically-installed
system did not put a kernel image in the Mac HFS boot partition, only
yaboot is there, I think. I don't see why it needs one now just
because I recompiled the kernel?
Thanks for reading this far! Any helpful suggestions?
Michael
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