Hi,

I have attempted to install the kernel source as according to

download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.htm

1) I downloaded the kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm

2) then i ran rpm -i kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm

3) Then I changed directory to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/, and issue the following command specifiing the x86 arch.:

>rpmbuild -bp --target=<arch> kernel.spec

At this point it all seems ok.

However I am not clear on the next instructions

i think i

cp kernel-2.6.9-1.667-x86-smp.config ./config

and then ran

make oldconfig

and got the following error:

make: *** No rule to make target 'oldconfig' . Stop

Can anyone shed some light on this? I am very eager and new so I may have missed something ovious but I am almost stumped.

I read somewhere that I may have downloaded the wrongsource rpm?

Any help would be muchly apreciated.

much ass grassy ass

ok this might not be the full problem but t shoudl be
cp kernel-2.6.9-1.667-x86-smp.config ./.config

(as its a hidden file )

thanks for the suggestion. Im still getting the same error. From what i can see the make command requires some arguments and that why the command make oldconfig doesn't work.

Does anyone have any ideas ?


Cheers

make oldconfig worked fine for me, are you in the right directory ?

Personally I got the latest kernel from www.kernel.org untared that to /usr/src , then coppied the old config file (the one you are playing with) to the new source dir, then go to the the new source tree (/usr/src/linux-2.6.10......) then do

make oldconfig
make xconfig
make all
make modules_install
make install

Just found this while doing somehitng else. I guess this is what you were trying to do.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/271592

do you have to do all of this? I just typed in rpm -ivh kernel-1.6.9-1.667.src.rpm (or something like that, it did its install and ndiswrapper installed fine. I downloaded the rpm from pbone.