Ok so let me start from the beginning =). I recompiled my kernel to 2.4.0
with some success. Here's the first problem I ran into after booting into
my new kernel. During the boot up process I got a "failed" message
something about can't find /lib/module/2.4.0-0.31mdk. So I went to that
directory to find that I had renamed it to 2.4.0-0.31.mdk.old. So I dropped
off the .old and rebooted. This time during the boot up, I got a different
message when it came up to the module part. This time I got a long list of
messages about "unrecognized symbols", or something to that effect. So I
went back into the /lib/module directory and saw a 2.4.0 directory. So now
I am looking at 2.4.0 and 2.4.0-0.31mdk both are directories. I checked
both directories and realized that the 2.4.0 was the right one!!! The 31mdk
directory was a previous attempt to compile the kernel. SO I renamed the
31mdk, back to .old and changed 2.4.0 to 2.4.0-0.31.mdk. The only reason I
knew this was because I checked the dates on the files in both directories.
So this time when I rebooted, I got the great green "OK" when it was loading
the modules. Now here's where I am stuck!!!!
I noticed that I get a eth0 module not found when booting up. I got this
ever since I compiled the new kernel. So I go into gnome, and run hard
drake, select hardware configuration. I select my network card....LTE-ON
LNE100TX, and select to configure it, but I get this error "modprobe: can't
locate module eth0". I also get "modprobe: can't locate pnp-isa" when I try
to configure my soundcard. Now these work fine with the old kernel, but
with the new one I guess I am missing something?? Now When I was going
through the steps to compile the new kernel, I used xconfig and I know I
selected isa-pnp, and I couldn't find my exact network card, so I selected
what could of been one of them. The book I was reading from said you had to
do one last step, and I couldn't follow the book at all. It said you needed
to configure the new modules??? It showed some weird commands like this..
Example from the book: (Caldera)
#find /lib/modules/2.0.35-apm -name "*.0" -print >
"/etc/modules/2.0.35/
$ (uname -v).default"
please help =).
Alan
