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


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