On Monday 15 September 2003 19:39, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> Greetings: Changing to Slackware 9.0, 2.4.20, I discovered the
> default kernel, bare.i, does not have the module; sg.o, but sg.c and
> sg.h are in the src.. Therefore my HP scanner that worked with 2.4.18
> is found OK but has no kernel support.. (At least I think that's the
> problem so far.) (The scanner is a scsi job and I have the BusLogic
> module, sane-backend, etc, installed.) (With 2.4.18, 'insmod sg', set
> up the kernel support for this scanner.)
sg is in the kernel bare.i that is.
> Perhaps I should know this but; is there a way to compile sg.o
> without going through a complete build, since everything else I need
> is working fine?
Yes there is a way, but i dont think you need to do it, if the support is in
the kernel then all should work ok like it would as if it were compiled as a
module.
Anyway, there is a file called config-ide-2.4.20 in your /boot directory, you
can use that to get an almost identical compile.
Copy it to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20 or if you have a symlink called linux
pointing to linux-2.4.20 cp to linux makes little differance.
Call it .config rename it or copy it to .config, one way;
cd /usr/src/linux
cp /boot/config-ide-2.4.20 .config
Now edit the Makefile, line 4 change from;
EXTRAVERSION =
to
EXTRAVERSION = -1
save file;
edit .config
change line 454 from;
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
to
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
save file
do;
make oldconfig
make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install
After its all finished do;
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-1
cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.20-1
Place a stanza in /etc/lilo.conf
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-1
label=2.4.20-1
# append="hdc=ide-scsi"
# vga=791
read-only
root=/dev/hdXx
Commented lines are what i use, they are examples only.
replace hdXx with your root device.
save file;
run lilo WITH -t option, if no errors rerun lilo.
reboot
Most of the above is simply a cut and paste job so spelling mistakes should be
few (i hope).
I am sure you knew all that anyway, hope it helps...
73's.
>
> TIA and cheers,
>
> Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
> Proprietary Formats Unacceptable
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