On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 14:45:38 +0530, surya.prabhakar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > You distribution should be normally providing a file in you boot directory with the config options > like /boot/config-xxx > > IF it is not there also no problem try these below steps > > Install kernel source closest to your source from kernel.org(check uname -r) > untar it in /usr/src > Match the Version name in the Makefile to the exact name of your current running kernel . > enter directory , > make mrproper > make oldconfig This combo is bound to be useless! make mrproper removes .config, even if there have been one. Then make oldconfig asks all questions that are not answered in .config. There are none (.config was removed, and in fact it never existed), so it will ask all of them. In an ugly command-line interface. > make menuconfig (and select the option for the module you wanted and save) Now, all questions were already asked. Only useful if you want to fix something/ > make dep clean bzImage modules ( dont do modules_install - it will overwrite) Why are you doing bzImage, when you are not going to use it??? > latter do a find for your module in the kernel source and copy it to approriate path (just in case try insmoding it first) > in /lib/modules/<current-kernel-path>/kernel/drivers/<your mod dir> or where ever > then do a depmod -ae > update your modules.conf I'd doubt this would work. Under some circumstances, like if the kernel had CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, it is bound not to. > that's all . > enjoy..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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