Karl: This appelation is easily removed. Edit your Makefile. You'll find "custom" applied about four lines into this script as "EXTRAVERSION." PS: The issue of an appropriate modules directory is handled by the Redhat install scripts. In other words, if one does: make modules make modules_install with a Redhat installation, the scripts will create /lib/modules/2.4.X-Ycustom as appropriate. So, at least with Redhat, this is actually not a problem. On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Karl Dahlke wrote: > This is of interest to people who fold Jupiter, Speakup, or Brass into their own kernels, > or anyone who rebuilds the kernel for any reason. > > I found that somewhere around 2.4.7, Linux throws you a curve. > And believe me, I was swinging high for several hours! > > If your kernel is, say, version 2.4.8, > your newly built kernel will be version 2.4.8custom. > The word custom is tacked on the end. > This means all modules are taken from > /lib/modules/2.4.8custom, a directory that (probably) doesn't exist > on your system. > No modules means lots of things won't work. > Probably your network connection, possibly some of your drives. > And some drivers, such as the 3com network drivers, > *must* be built as modules, and loaded that way. > I was quite frustrated, until I figured this out. > I made a symbolic link from 2.4.8custom to 2.4.8. > That's probably not what Linus wanted me to do. > He probably wanted me to make a new directory > and replicate all those modules, > my own custom modules. > But guess what? I didn't feel like it. > > Karl > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp