Problems Building Kernel 2.4.9

[Donovan J. Edye]

D,

WooHoo!!!! That did the trick. Thanks to all that have helped me build my
first kernel!!!!

--D

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]  On
Behalf Of Damien Elmes
Sent:	Thursday, 4 October 2001 23:22
To:	Donovan J. Edye
Cc:	Linux List
Subject:	Re: Problems Building Kernel 2.4.9

"Donovan J. Edye" <d.edye at bigfoot.com> writes:

> M,
>
> OK we are inching along. Matt I followed your advice and did as you
> described. However you said:
>
> fakeroot make-kpkg --revision dje.20011002.01 binary-image
>
> I could not find a build label binary-image. The man page seemed to
indicate
> that kernel_image was the same thing so that is what I did. Installed the
> kernel and rebooted to discover (pleasantly) that I am now running the
2.4.9
> kernel. However I could not telnet in to the box which made me think that
> the modules (of which PCI NE2000 compatable is one) are not being loaded.
If
> I do a "lsmod -l" I get an empty list. If I look in /lib/modules/2.4.9/* I
> can see all the .o files for the modules. However running modprobe -a
> ne2k-pci and I get an error message of Can't locate module.
>
> I guess I am missing something small here again. Pointers (and hopefully
> amusement to the writer ;-)) appreciated.

depmod -a

if that doesn't work, your modutils are not new enough to handle the
kernel modules new directory structure, and thus you'll need to update
them

(apt-get update && apt-get install modutils)

cheers!

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Damien Elmes
resolve at repose.cx