Hi Doug and listers, The 2.4.26 kernel compiled successfully, although my network support seems to have died even though I enabled it along with my specific network card in config. Well, Alsa works again... *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/19/2004 at 6:37 PM Doug Sutherland wrote: >>> modules in /lib/modules > > Is this why I'm unable to even access network devices when I try > > running a 2.4.26 kernel on Slackware 9.1? > >If you compile a 2.4.26 kernel, there will be /lib/modules/2.4.26 >If you didn't compile it, then a binary/precompiled kernel would >have to provide both the kernel image file and the associated >modules in /lib/modules/2.4.26. > >If you have some time to muck around, try getting the 2.4.26 source >from ftp.kernel.org and > >extract it in /usr/src >make a new symbolic link for linux >cd /usr/src >rm linux >ln -s linux-2.4.26 linux > >Then configure the kernel >cd /usr/src/linux >make mrproper >make config OR make menuconfig > >Then compile the kernel >make dep >make bzImage > >Then compile and install the modules >make modules modules_install > >That last command make modules_install puts the modules in >/lib/modules/2.4.26 > >The compiled kernel will be in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage >You need to copy that to /boot (usually renaming it vmlinuz-2.4.26) >and then update the bootloader. > >Things are different with 2.6 kernels, I don't recommend using one >yet unless you really need some feature or like to hack around. > > -- Doug > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
