>Have you seen the README in the /usr/src/linux directory? Yes. And I've read the sections on compiling your kernel in "Running Linux" the successor to the Installation and Getting Started Guides. >Doing "make config" once is a pretty daunting task. But having >done it once, you may rarely have to do it again. Well I did it again several times because I hoped after studying dmsg, that'd I'd have a better clue how to answer all the questions. But as it loads, the kernel reports finding some hardware without being as specific as make config wants me to be. I don't know what chipset my Ethernet controller is, for example. What would really be helpful is to know how the pre-compiled kernels, that already work on my machine were configured. Are the responses given to make config for my distro's pre-compiled kernels somewhere? I also understand that the defaults are simply the last answer someone using that source tree gave. What I seem to need then is the answers given when the kernel that works was compiled. --Debee
