Motherboard: Intel D815EEA PIII 866MHz
Memory: 512Mb
OS: Fedora Core 4
Kernel: 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4-i686
Me: Newbie

I am trying to get my USB memorystick as device in my PC.
After following the instructions from:
LinuxQuestions.org > LinuxAnswers > USB Card Reader HowTo
Trying to buikd my kernel ends with the make statement resulting in a:
make: *** [init] Error 2 (see below)
Can somebody help this newbie out. Other threads about this are not clear to me.
THNXS

# make && make modules_install
CHK include/linux/version.h
SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/lex.o
scripts/genksyms/lex.c:546:5: warning: "YY_STACK_USED" is not defined
scripts/genksyms/lex.c:1424:5: warning: "YY_ALWAYS_INTERACTIVE" is not defined
scripts/genksyms/lex.c:1427:5: warning: "YY_NEVER_INTERACTIVE" is not defined
scripts/genksyms/lex.c:1718:5: warning: "YY_MAIN" is not defined
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/parse.o
/usr/lib/bison.simple:164:5: warning: "YYMAXDEPTH" is not defined
HOSTLD scripts/genksyms/genksyms
CC scripts/mod/empty.o
MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
scripts/mod/sumversion.c: In function ‘parse_file’:
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:260: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘grab_file’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:277: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘parse_string’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:283: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘parse_comment’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c: In function ‘parse_source_files’:
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:335: warning: pointer targets in initialization differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:344: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:357: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘parse_file’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c: In function ‘strip_rcs_crap’:
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_strcmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_strcmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_strcmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_strcmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strncmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:469: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:469: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:469: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:485: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:486: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c: In function ‘maybe_frob_rcs_version’:
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:496: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strip_rcs_crap’ differ in signedness HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'. Stop.
make: *** [init] Error 2

Is this a sigle device?
It is not one of those multi-slot card readers is it?

What output do you get when it is plugged in from these commands.
/sbin/lsusb
/sbin/fdisk -l
cat /proc/scsi/scsi

fdisk -l needs to be run as root

Lets go from here.
Brian1

When i was bboting with USB-mem in my PC it was working.
When i boot it without it is evengone from my /etc/fstab
Answers:
[root@fluffy dev]# /sbin/lsusb
-bash: /sbin/lsusb: No such file or directory
[root@fluffy dev]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 4866 38981722+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hdd: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 14596 117242338+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 32 MB, 32768000 bytes
3 heads, 32 sectors/track, 666 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 96 * 512 = 49152 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 667 31983 4 FAT16 <32M
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1000, 2, 32) logical=(666, 1, 30)
[root@fluffy dev]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: OPTI3 Model: Flash Disk Rev: 7.79
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
[root@fluffy dev]#

The problem is that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4), and therefore, Fedora, ships with a fake kernel source that's more than kernel header files, and less than a full kernel.
You CAN make menuconfig
You CAN make modules
You CANNOT make
You CANNOT make bzImage
Your kernel will never build because it's not a full kernel.

If you want to build a real kernel, you have to download the src.rpm for the kernel version you wish to rebuild, then install the src.rpm, then copy the kernel source from /usr/src/redhat/... to a sensible location like
/usr/src/

See documents like
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_5109.shtm
and
http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_fedora

What Red Hat should do is CHANGE THEIR MAKEFILE
to give a meaningful error when somebody types make
or make bzImage

Right now, it instead looks like a legitimate kernel misconfiguration problem. Are you listening Red Hat?

Thnx davidbackeberg now i understand why.
This is one of the reasons i switched to Debian.