Well , I have a comp thats tailor made for windoze ... that means that most of the h/w doesnt work with Linux .... I culdnt configure the graphics card ... so xconfig failed when I installed linux .... I dunno what menuconfig is ... but I am gonna try it Thanx Narasimhamurthy Giri, Clemson University Computer Science Dept. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote: > > > Hi all > > I was trying to compile a module by doing: > > > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -O -Wall -c file.c -o file.o > > > > I got an error: > > > > from /linux/module.h > > included from file.c: /linux/autoconf.h does not exist > > Have you done a 'make menuconfig/xconfig/' and saved the settings? > I think thats what creates autoconf.h > > -- > The statement below is true. > The statement above is false. > ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^ > Amit Kucheria > EECS Grad. Research Assistant > University of Kansas @ Lawrence > (R)+1-(785)-830 8521 ||| (O)+1-(785)-864 7774 > ____________________________________________________ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
