I reloaded my computer with Slack 9.1 and copied a working 2.6.3 kernel and ran lilo. If I run uname -r I get 2.6.3. After reloading I ran the dropline installer and let it install everything.

I downloaded the kernel 2.6.5 source and decompressed it in /usr/src and created a symlink as /usr/src/linux. When I run make menuconfig I get the following and get dumped back out to the command line.

HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:126,
from /usr/include/limits.h:144,
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.2.3/include/limits.h:132,
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.2.3/include/syslimits.h:7,
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.2.3/include/limits.h:11,
from scripts/basic/fixdep.c:105:
/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:212,
from scripts/basic/fixdep.c:107:
/usr/include/bits/socket.h:305:24: asm/socket.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function `use_config':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:193: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:193: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:193: for each function it appears in.)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:193: warning: unused variable `s'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function `parse_dep_file':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:289: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:289: warning: unused variable `s'
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2




I'm trying to get nvidia drivers working and am getting unknown module errors. I was planning on just compiling a new kernel.

Hello,

well, it seems that some header files in "/usr/include" are missing. I have created the following symlinks in "/usr/include":
Maybe there is a better way to solve this problem, but for me it works...

cu

hp_tux

let me get this straight. you run 2.6.3 kernel... and are trying to compile nvidia drivers against the 2.6.5 source???

im pretty sure you need to compile agaist the source for the kernel you are running...

I'm running 2.6.3 but I'm going to compile a new kernel based on 2.6.5 and then work on installing the nvidia drivers.

I think I've solved the problem. I installed the kernel source and header files for 2.4.22 from the slackware CD.

When you compile a new kernel do the existing header files for 2.4.22 get overwritten with the files from 2.6.5?

I searched far and wide on google and other sites. What I found is allot of people have this question and very few have the answer. This may cure your troubles. I found it on
<a href="
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba...ch/064442.html
">
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba...ch/064442.html
</a>

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I found the fix...

Basically the problem is that the compile is looking for headers that are
usually distributed with the kernel sources

by grabbing the latest kernel, untaring it in /usr/src, and creating the
following links:

/usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux
/usr/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386

everything worked.

Commands from start to beginning might look something like this:

cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern...2.4.18.tar.bz2
bzip2 -dc linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
cd /usr/include
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm

Daniel Watrous
dwatrous at maintainfit.com

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now its on to some other problem
I try compileing the kernel and it says

timer.c:35: conflicting types for `xtime'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/include/linux/sched.h:540: previous declaration of `xtime'

how do I fix this?

Hello,

hmm, I had posted this solution already in this thread!

cu

hp_tux

Thanks you hp_tux, your first post regarding the links helped me out a lot!

Ohhhhh man thanks Tux and Moose,..

Finnally a solution that actually worked for me...
you guys rock hard