I'm upgrading my kernelfrom 2.0.33 to 2.0.35, and thought I'd do it the
hard way, rather than installing a patch, to get some experience. I'm
getting more experience than I want!
I unpacked the kernel source, got loads of compilation errors, worked out I
needed to downgrade gcc, did that, compiled the kernel, did "make zlilo",
and rebooted. Now it recognises my display controller (the reason behind
the upgrade) but can't see my network card (which was working fine...)
Ah hah! I need to compile the modules! I look in /usr/src/linux/modules and
there isn't much there, so I assume I need to install them. So I go and get
the modules source from the same place as the kernel (its called
modules-2.0.0.tar.gz but I assume that must be the latest as its the only
one there) and install them, then do make modules, followed by make
modules_install.
I reboot, but still no modules are loaded, and when I look in
/usr/src/linux/modules, there's not much there again, but there was before
I compiled the modules.
What am I doing wrong? Is the compile meant to delete all the modules
source? I gather that only the needed modules are compiled, so I'm probably
compiling too much into the kernel, but how can I recompile the modules now
the source has gone, unless I re-install it? I can't be expected to do that
every time, surely?
Neil
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