Hi, copy the file /boot/config-<old-kernel-version> to $(new-kernel-source-dir)/.config and run "make menuconfig". Then you can compile a kernel with the options from the older kernel.
Torsten Am Mon, 2002-04-29 um 19.39 schrieb Keith O'Connell: > > Hi, > > I have identified a problem with my setup of Woody, and I would like some > input. I wiped my machine down and used the floppies to setup a net install, > this gives me kernel 2.2.20. Everything works fine except sound. This is OK > as I know that I need 2.4.x for my sound to work. I then installed > kernel-image 2.4.16-k7 to the system and everything including the sound works > fine, and has done for about 10 days. > > Today I went to backup some data to CD and my CD writer was not recognised. > Infact my scsi sub-system was not recognised. I played around for a while but > could not get it to work. Eventually, as it had worked under potato, I > rebooted into 2.2.20 and it worked fine. > > Now, I am ent completly new, but not far from it. For people like me, and > newer ones the fact that the instalation kernel (2.2.20) when replaced by a > distribution kernel image from the same source (2.4.18) would be expected to > run the same hardware, and it doesnt in this case. A truly new person would > have just said, "I didn't get this trouble from Windows!" > > Is this a problem that I could have avoided in some way? I don't want to > build kernels for ordinary systems, I just want to download the latest kernel > inmage when I need the features and carry on working > > Keith > -- > ________________________________________________________________________ > Keith O'Connell > Maidstone, Kent (UK) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
