I'm building a LFS system for my netserver, and i compiled the kernel and all, and it booted in fine with it etc, but then i accidentally deleted the source...then when i was compiling these network drivers, i was getting the error of "Kernel source not found". So i grabbed the source again, put it in /usr/src/linux-2.4.19 and tried again...then it gave me an error that these sources haven't been configured...so ive configured them to what i _thought_ i had before...no doubt i may have missed a few options...could this be contributing to the following error? maybe i have to compile the kernel completely with the new configs for it to work???

also, after i had selected the new options for the kernel, i did make dep after it...


*insert some funny characters here*/bin/sh: -W: unrecognised option
then theres a listing of --help
and this:

Makefile:180: *** *** Aborting the build. *** This driver is not supported on kernel versions older than 2.4.0. Stop.


But the kernel version is 2.4.19 as this proves!: /usr/src/linux-2.4.19

hopefully i haven't confused you guys...

you should rebuild the kernel if you don't have the config file, everything needs to match

you should put a copy of your config file in /boot/

/boot/config-2.4.19

this way you will have it next time.

yeah but i was hoping not having to recompile the kernel completely...looks like i might as well with the new 2.4.20...


In LFS, you have to use kernel headers for a compilation of some program, can't remember what it was though...does it matter if i use a newer/different kernel now? or should all be good?

you are supposed to leave the original headers in place, but nobody seems to do it.

what does 'uname -a' return?

ok well i've recompiled the kernel, but this time as 2.4.20 and ive kept the source, hehe

The make install of the drivers is still giving me the errors. Is there some way that i can copy and paste the output of make install in here (I'm making it all on another machine here..)

I tried make install > output and ill chuck that output file onto a floppy and put into this machine and paste in here, but that didn't work...

any idea's?

you can select the text and paste it in a file

LOL, but how do you SELECT the text in a console? There is no mouse in there, gpm or what-ever it is, is disabled.

Anybody?! Please! I need to get this machine up ASAP.

do you have a /usr/src/linux link to your kernelsource?

gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2

yeah, there's a symlink from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20 to /usr/src/linux

DavidPhillips...I didn't compile any mouse support for the machine, there's no mouse connected, and I didn't install gpm.


Any more idea's on how to get the output to you guys?
Isn't there some way to pipe the output thru a program that'll write it to a file?

maybe this

2&1> filename

so you do it like so?:

make install 2&1> output

well, even if i do that, output turns out to be blank..

and if i go:
2&1> output
make install

the output file also comes out blank..

"make install > install.txt" should do the trick.