Did you try a make mrproper first (before make menuconfig)? Copy you
.config file somewhere, because it will erase it. Then do:
make dep clean modules modules_install bzImage
Forrest
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Leeuw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Compiling kernel modules...
>
>
> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here? I have never
> been able to
> successfully recompile the kernel with modules. I am using
> seawolf and I
> have looked up numerous articles on how to do it but none of
> the procedures
> I have read about have worked. I can recompile the kernel as
> long as all of
> the support I want is compiled in (no modules). I can
> include kernel module
> loader support and it seems to work fine on the newly
> compiled kernel, 'cept
> I have no modules to insert because everytime I build the modules the
> process fails. This is what I am doing:
>
> # make menuconfig
> - select the stuff i want, nothing fancy, exit saving changes.
>
> # make dep clean modules
> - make errors out during the modules part (usually Error 2)
> referencing
> whatever things I have selected as modules (for example
> parallel port, usb
> stuff, stuff like that, things that are already running as
> modules in the
> default kernel)
>
> # some books I have on the subject say to remove the existing
> module support
> from /lib/modules/'version', then after making the modules run # make
> modules_install , thus installing them. Then I edit /etc/modules.conf
> accordingly. Update lilo.conf, run lilo, then reboot. This
> is what I know
> to do thus far.
>
> Like I said I can recompile the kernel successfully as long
> as I do not
> select to make any of the items I want as modules, they
> compile fine if I
> just include them. As a note, I don't need any module support during
> bootup, meaning all the support I need during boot I compile into the
> kernel, thus eliminating the need to build and ramdisk image.
>
> I haven't included all of the error details because I suspect
> that there is
> something simple that I am doing wrong that is causing this
> problem and
> therefore what I have written here should be sufficient. I
> can include
> specifics if needed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Leeuw
> Network Administrator
> Dwight Asset Management
> 100 Bank Street
> Suite 800
> Burlington, VT 05401
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