[wplug] I'm a Linux whimp (need kernel help)

[Robert E. Coutch]

The tips below seemed to work and I was able to do a make modules.

Here's the problems I ran into.

The modules I need made are in a directory called  /usr/src/kernel-modules
There's nothing in that directory tree for Make to work.
There are source and header files in there.

I tried copying savage.c, savage.h and all other savage.* files 
into /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm and retried make modules.
All modules were built except for the savage ones.

I re-attempted running the install script from the dri project.
Again it barked about no kernel config found.

I googled and found these steps:
cd /usr/src/linux
zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
make oldconfig

Now the install script runs much further along until it states:
Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.8/Module.symvers is missing

This file is not under /usr/src/linux either.

On a whim,
I copied the savage* files (.c and .h) over 
to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.8/drivers/char/drm
and did a make modules from the /usr/src/linux-2.4.11.4-21.8 directory.
I saw it compile every module in the drm directory EXCEPT the ones I added in.
Obviously I'm missing something.

Then I do an ls and see that Module.symvers is now there.

I re-run the install script from the dri people.
Poof - it finally works.

I still have no idea what happened and why inserting the .c and .h code from 
SuSE into the source tree did nothing.

Any comments?


Thanks,

Bob

On Friday 12 August 2005 02:53 pm, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> Hey - that's a hot tip.  Thanks!!
>
> I haven't had time to start fooling with that laptop since I send that
> first email to the group.
>
> Work has been keeping me very busy so I'll take another swing at the laptop
> this weekend.
>
> -Bob
>
> On Friday 12 August 2005 08:37 am, Poyner, Brandon wrote:
> > > Well - It looks like I need to make a kernel config !!!
> > >
> > > These are the things I have nightmares about.
> > > Wish me luck - I'm going in.
> >
> > Since I didn't see anybody else mention it, one thing SuSe does is
> > include the current kernel configuration inside the kernel itself, which
> > you can find at /proc/config.gz.  They have made it as simple as:
> >
> > cd /usr/src/linux && make cloneconfig
> >
> > Of course you could also 'zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config'
> > and work it from there with 'make oldconfig'.
> >
> > Brandon Poyner
> > Network Engineer III
> > CCAC - College Office
> > 412-237-3086
> >
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