Hi All,

I'm upgrading my kernel from 2.6.18 to 2.6.22. before I use menuconfig to configure the 2.6.22 ernel, I copy a version of .config from my woring 2.6.18 kernel:

cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config

When I select "load an alternate configuration file", I get (the real list is about 5 x this size) the following alert. I'm not sure what's going on here, I haven't seen this before.

Thanks,

lb

/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:197:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol REGPARM
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:231:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol ACPI_HOTKEY
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:238:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol ACPI_IBM
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:257:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol APM_RTC_IS_GMT
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:367:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol HOTPLUG_PCI_SHPC_POLL_EVENT_MODE
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:384:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol NETDEBUG
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:398:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_ROUTE_FWMARK
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:528:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_CONNTRACK
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:529:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_CT_ACCT
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:530:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:531:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_CONNTRACK_SECMARK
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:532:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_CONNTRACK_EVENTS
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:533:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_CONNTRACK_NETLINK
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:534:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_CT_PROTO_SCTP
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:535:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_FTP
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:536:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_IRC
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:537:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_NETBIOS_NS
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:538:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_TFTP
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686:539:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_AMANDA

Run "make oldconfig" before "make menuconfig". It will prompt you for the settings of features not present in the old configuration.

Thanks much! I'll try this as soon as I get home from work.

Cheers,

lb

Ok, the make oldconfig command worked fine. I was asked a HUGE amount of questions though. To be honest, many of the options were over my head. I used common sense but I'm wondering if I had gone ahead and just entered throughmake menuconfig if I could have safely edited from there? I guess what I'm asking is this: is there a friendlier and less time-consuming way to do this? I miss the "help" option in menuconfig that explained about the module I was looking at.

Thanks Again,

lb

Try the make xconfig option You'll need some additional dev libs for X and Qt (among others, but that explains itself once you've tried it).

Thanks for the tip Dutch.

Cheers,

lb

Thanks again. I installed recommended libs and it also required installation of g++. Pretty cool, I'll have to play around with a bit.

-lb