On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:58 +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > Am Mittwoch 9. März 2005 21:26 schrieb Ben Hill: > > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:14 +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > > > After requesting how to get an orinoco driver monitor support I've > > > comiled the kernel-source-2.6.8 package with the orinoco patch applied. > > > > How did you compile the kernel? > >
> I downloaded the source-package-2.6.8 > unpacked it .. > > patched it with > patch -p1 < /usr/rainer/orinoco-0.13e-dragorn-rfmon.diff > > make oldconfig > make-dpkg > > and then istalled the package with kpackage > > copied vmlinux and System.map to /root **thats how I got the system running > again > > and copied vmlinux-2.6.8 to vmlinux, did the same with System.map-2.6.8 > That may be your problem. You could try: make oldconfig make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image ...to build the kernel (custom.1.0 is just my suffix, you can use whatever you want), then: # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.8_custom.1.0_powerpc.deb ...to install it. > So i should mention that I'm not really familiar with custom kernel building, > also if I studied CS and have some coding experience, but I did mostly > special propose HTML servers and some web tools and to be honest not under > linux....... That's ok, you don't need much hacking experience to build the kernel. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.seigan.org PGP Key fingerprint = 4309 1C58 5143 AFAC F69E 11CD 76FD 56D4 1223 E387
