Kernel Basics
 

I have been using the Kernel-Howto, which seems wildly out of date, to try to create a new kernel. I am running debian woody on a pentium pro, and trying to make a 2.4.18 kernel. The problem is that 'make config' doesn't ask me about certain devices, such as my sound card, (an old soundblaster 16) so there is no obvious way to make kernel modules for the necessary drivers. I am obviously missing something really big here. Basically my 2.2.whatever kernel has a bunch of modules, and those don't seem to get compiled when I run 'make modules', and I don't understand why. Thanks for dealing with newbie crap.

By the way, I am pretty much following the HowTo verbatim, so if you are wondering what steps I am taking, those are them.
Matt

Go into the kernel source directory and do the following:You may find www.kernelnewbies.org of help maybe :)

This is exactly what i did. I then went into lilo.conf and pointed Linux to the new bzImage. I still don't know where the modules are supposed to end up. There is a directory called /usr/src/modules which only has one module (one I compiled myself) . /lib/modules/2.4.18/ does not appear to contain any *.o type files. So what step am i missing ?

Thanks for any help. As you can tell by the long time since my last post, learning to use linux is not something I have been spending a lot of my time on lately, but I think building a kernel is probably one of the most important things to learn to do at the beginning.

Matt

Never mind I had my head up my @@@.

Matt