module comilation problems

Vencalator · 09-25-2003, 05:57 AM

hi i got some problem by compileing of modules when i do kernel upgrade
It seems to have something to do with orig . suse config file
because when i set configuration myself it make modules.
any ideas ?
ps : its 2.422 kernel .

thx

jailbait · 09-25-2003, 10:26 AM

It sounds like you are not doing the make xconfig step. Here are instructions on how to compile a kernel.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/

Vencalator · 09-25-2003, 10:50 AM

i did make xconfig and i even tried make menuconfig
but no luck

jailbait · 09-25-2003, 11:43 AM

"It seems to have something to do with orig . suse config file"

Where did you get your kernel source from?

Where did you get the .config file that you began configuring with make xconfig?

If you are using the SuSE source rpm kernel then you can start with the original SuSE .config by:
make cloneconfig

Vencalator · 09-25-2003, 01:16 PM

ok
my kernel i got from kernel.org
my config file i got form /boot/vmlinuz.config (people told me thats the orig. one, so i used that)

and i installed suse source(i think i got files in /usr/src/suse-2.4.20-4gb or so )

where do i get config u say ?
is it in source of suse kernel ?
thx

jailbait · 09-25-2003, 03:47 PM

"where do i get config u say ?
is it in source of suse kernel ?"

Yes. But it should be the same thing as vmlinuz.config.

When you start make xconfig the first thing that you should do is click on "Load Config File" and load vmlinuz.config into make xconfig

Vencalator · 09-25-2003, 03:59 PM

i did this but still modules not crated dont know why..

jailbait · 09-25-2003, 05:12 PM

"i did this but still modules not crated dont know why.."

Later in the kernel compile you have to enter the commands:
make modules
make modules_install

Vencalator · 09-26-2003, 08:35 AM

i have done this too

i get crazy

jailbait · 09-26-2003, 10:26 AM

Look in /lib/modules and see what modules you have. You should have directories for the modules for both your old and new kernel.

Vencalator · 09-29-2003, 07:40 AM

some are there for 2.4.22 and all for 2.4.20-suse it just made some a few of 2.4.22 modules.
like 60-75 % is missing.

jailbait · 09-29-2003, 04:32 PM

I think that what you said in your original post is probably correct:

"It seems to have something to do with orig . suse config file"

I think that you should check out the suse config file this way:
Go into make xconfig and load the suse config file. Then check to see if any module that is specified as "m" in make xconfig is missing in /lib/modules/2.4.22.

In any case I think that the best thing to do is to just set up your own kernel config file and ignore SuSE's since there seems to be some problem with it.