On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 09:14:20PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a debian system, I have the kernel source installed which it seems > includes all the object modules. I want to add a missing module. There is > no reference to it in the .config file, but the source code is there. > > Under dead rat (fedora) I would: > > 1. Edit the .config file, and add the module name as > "CONFIG_<module_name>=m" > > 2. Run "make oldconfig". >
Fine. Though you may doo this through 'make menuconfig' in case the dependies changed something. > 3. Run "make bzImage". (Does debian use vmlinuz?) > > 4. Run "make modules". > > 5. Run "make modules_install". > > 6. Copy the kernel to /boot As a substitute to those, there is "make rpm" / "make deb" > > 7. Run lilo. (Why do they still use lilo?) Actually, if you ran 'make install' it sould have run /sbin/installkernel for you and save you that guesswork. 'make help' . Things are better with 2.6. > > 8. Fix /etc/modprobe.d entry for the device. > > 9. Reboot. -- Tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
