According to Christian Dysthe: > > Hello Debian, > > I have tried to compile my kernel(2.0.34)for sound card support > using kpgk. During the comile I get the message that it cannot find > the command "dpkg-gencontrol", and no kernel image is created. > > I put the kernel source in /user/kernelnew/linux/. the kpkg talks > something about leving /usr/linux alone, but I do not understand > this part fully. > > I have tried to compile the kernel using normal config and make, > and it compiles fine and the kernel I get works fine, but I rather > use kpkg since it "automates' the whole procedure more for a newbie > like myself.
This is a known bug of dpkg, when you are using locales. You have to set the environment variables LANG and LC_TYPE, LC_ALL and the like to C instead of e.g. de_DE. Do in bash: "LANG=C; export LANG", in tcsh: "setenv LANG C" and so on. Then you can just retype your make-kpkg command and it will succeed. kws -- Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte Bergische Universitaet-GH/HRZ (Computing Center) Gaussstr. 20 D-42097 Wuppertal (Germany) Tel. +49-202-4392807, Fax +49-202-4392910 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
