Hi
I have Fedora core 3 running.
I am installing the new OC3 NIC card driver and the user guide says that I need to configure the kernel before installing it. Can anyone verify if my steps are correct:
1- Get kernel source
kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm
2- rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm
3- cd to /usr/src/SPECS
4- rpmbuild -v-bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
5- ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux
6- cd /usr/src/linux/
7- make mrproper
8- cp config/kernel-2.6.9-i686.config ./config
9- make oldconfig dep
10-Make modules
11-Make modules_install
12-Make install

thanks
Anh

Hi,
After step4 you will be getting Binary RPM of kernel. You only need to install it. Because when you install a kernel src rpm. you will get a lot of patches also to be applied first and then kernel will get compiled. SO if you are getting kernel already compiled then why r u again using make and make install?
Ok you want to change .config file then just after step 2 go to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ and modify kernel-2.6.9-i686.config and then foloow step 3-4 and then install binary kernel RPM

Hi

I'm not sure what you mean by install binary kernel RPM. Can you tell me what command to use
Thanks
Anh

hi,
Binary rpm means whenever u built a rpm using rpmbuilt u will get binary rpm and then u will use it. same here also. why i am asking u that because original red hat kenrel contains a lot of modified kernel compare to vanilla one from www.kernel.org