On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:53:11AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running an old soundblaster card that fits into the ISA (?) bus, > and so had to compile the modules to make it work - the default sound > and sb modules did not work. ? the modules should work.. you specified io, irq, dma, etc ? "in what way didn't it work?" (going to have to make a BIG yellow/black sign with that on it, one day) > The kernel, vmlinuz-2.2.17-idepci, runs pppd but I cannot get the sound > modules (force) loaded into it. They complain about lack of midi > support, amongst other things. how are you loading the modules? modprobe(8) should handle dependencies for you > I compiled a kernel from kernel-source-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1.deb, got > the sound modules installed, sound works hunky-dory. But I cannot > get ppp to work on this kernel. > One subtlety : the -idepci kernel loads all of the modules : slhc, ppp, > ppp_deflate and bsd_comp, but the plain 2.2.17 kernel does not. Make > modules has not prompted it to compile ppp.o or slhc.o (but it did > compile ppp_deflate and bsd_comp), perhaps these are included in the > kernel itself. you probably didn't compile the ppp stuff.. the expanded kernel-source.deb just gives you a vanilla source tree, ie: nothing useful selected by default. the actual deb config used to build the kernel-image.debs is kernel-source-2.xx/.config.save just cp that to .config, and then rerun make-kpkg (you are using kernel-package aren't you?) the .config for an installed kernel (built using kernel-package) should be installed in /boot/config-2.xx, if you want it. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
