On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Peter Hardy wrote: > Hey hey. > > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to build the kernel for RedHat 9 (2.4.20) so > > that I can install a device driver. I did the "make > > config" to the best of my ability to guess > > Out of curiousity, what instructions are you following to compile the > kernel? They sound a bit archaic. :-)
Actually, comp;iling a kernel to injstall a device driver is pretty archaic too. What you should do: * Install a package containing the driver. Check http://dag.wieers.com/apt/ for packages containing most drivers that couldn't come with Red Hat, and freshrpms.net too. * Install the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages, visit the directory containing the driver you'd like, type `make' and copy the .o file to /lib/modules/whatever. Then type depmod to update the kernel's big list of modules which rely on other mkodukles to include the new driver. > > When I ran "make clean; make dep; make boot" it ended > > with: Don't do that. It will result in an unpoackaged kernel, which you have to manage unlike very other app that's installed on your system. Try `make rpm' instaead. You'll need the rpm-build package installed. But as said above, compiling a kernel to install a device driver is unnecessary in most cases. Good luck, Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
