I never ran mrproper. The last time I did that I had trouble bringing everything back to a good compile so I don't do that any more. Admittedly, that was a long time ago and many kernels back.
I have looked in the directory that you said and I have a modversions.h file. So, I do not know what I can do about this problem. Brian "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:40:39PM -0000, Brian Schramm wrote: > > Ok I am lost. I installed this system that I am running with potato and > > 2.2.17. I then downloaded the kernel source for 2.2.19 and compiled it the > > way I need it for my current system. So, what is this about keeping the > > .config file and configuring it the same way that the kernel was configured? > > Maybe I am lost but I am not sure what that has to do with me compiling the > > extra drivers for the netgear card. Do you mean that I need to compile again > > to generate this file? > > OK, lets start by assuming you have the kernel source in /usr/src/linux/ > When you ran 'make config' (or menuconfig or xconfig, whatever) you > generated a file /usr/src/linux/.config and > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h modversions.h is the key > file. When you ran 'make mrproper' you deleted both these files (and > whatever else was created by make config). > > So in order to create /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h, you > need to re-run make config. You don't need to re-compile the kernel at > all. > > What I recommend doing is saving a copy of /usr/src/linux/.config, so if > you ever do need to re-generate things like modversions.h in an > idendical configuration as before, you can just put the file in place > (/usr/src/linux/.config) and run 'make oldconfig'. > > noah > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > > -- Brian Schramm http://www.linuxexpert.org ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
