I am very lost...I am updateing my kernel to the 2.4.20 one, im on the 2.4.18 kernel right now. If you would like to knwo why its because i am trying to get my sound working and its not liking me compiling it from the kernel im on now and i read somewhere saying this kernel would support my sound card. Anyway, this is what i have done so far. I downloaded the kernel source from kernel.org and untared it. And i dont know what to do after that i read the read me file but it didnt make much sence to me. So if you could help me that would be great. Thanks!

you need to do all of this in the source folder
then you need to configure the kernel for your hardware. You can load your config file from your current kernel in the load config section in menuconfig if you want, it's probably in /boot, look for /boot/config-ide-2.4.18

after configuration

then you can put the kernel you made in /boot
and the System map file
the config file
ok now the initrd if you use one. If /etc/lilo.conf has no initrd in it then you don't need it. I have not seen it used on Slack. I'm adding it in case someone has a distro with mkinitrd
then it's a matter of duplicating the image section of your old kernel and change the image , initrd, and label names to match the new kernel in the file /etc/lilo.conf


then run

See the below link for more instructions. (basically a lot of those steps you can skip by issueing the command "make install") I've used the steps outlined there a few times now.

http://p-two.net/modules.php?op=modl...=article&sid=5

i got this error when i did the make modules_install, i dont know what it means or if its nothing but it says error so i thought i would ask

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/drm/sis.o
depmod: sis_free_Rsmp_ced25333
depmod: sis_malloc_Rsmp_a3329ed5
make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1

never saw this before, did the folder exist before you started?

try rm -rf /lib/modules/2.4.20

then try it again

i am still getting an error :-/

i also need to add in another driver that i have the source for how can i do this? it sis7012.o

did you try the i810 driver?

I think the sis7012 is a patch

did it come with a README file

That error is because of your current 2.4.18 symlink (I think). I got an error like that the first time I compiled the .20 kernel as well. Delete your symlink, and make a new one pointing to your 2.4.20 kernel source and recompile. At least that's what fixed it for me. I'm fairly new to slack myself though so I can't be 100% sure that's the issue, just that's what worked for me.

Rob

there is a symlink in the folder its /usr/src/linux linked to /usr/src/linux-2.4.18, is that what you want me to delete the symlink linux?

DavidPhillips - where could i get the i810 driver? that your tlaking about?

aye you need a new symlink pointing to your new sources:

ln -s /usr/src/linux/linux-2.4.20 /usr/src/linux

credit to Excalibur for teaching me that last week.

Rob

You should be able to build a kernel from anywhere though, unless something has changed and I missed the boat.