Re: I need a Kernel which supports sounds AND PCMCIA!

[Peter Salisbury <peter@baddesleychurch.org>]

On Thursday 24 July 2003 11:06, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:54:56AM +0100, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:09, Werner Heuser wrote:
> > > > Just compile your own kernel.... get the 2.4.21 kernel from
> > > > kernel.org and look at this:
> > > > http://www.linuxhelpnetwork.net/tutorials/compile-kernel.php
> > >
> > > Better look at the Linux Documentation Project:
> > >
> > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/index.html
> > >
> > > 	Werner
> >
> > Thanks, I've pulled in the Debian source package for 2.4.21 and I'm using
> > make-kpkg rather than the above method. So far I've tried three times and
> > the new kernel gets as far as the 'Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the
> > kernel' stage of boot and then hangs.
> >
> > I've tried both with and without the make-kpkg --initrd switch (with
> > corresponding line in lilo.conf) but it's the same either way. Is there
> > something else I should have done? Is there something essential in the
> > .config that I might have left out?
>
> yes, many things, also pcmcia you were compiling for :)
>
> try to copy the old config file (/boot/config-bf24 - I can't remember
> the name of the file but look for something similar) in the kernel
> source tree?
>
> cp /boot/config-* /usr/src/linux/.config
>
> so you have a functional configuration. You can start removing
> unnecessary options later on with 'make menuconfig'
>
> hth
> --
> mattia
>
Thanks mattia, I'm downloading the kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 and I'll copy the 
config from there. It takes an hour or two to build on this PC (166MHz) but 
I'll let you know how it goes once it's done.
Peter