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

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