Dear Debs, I have just succeeded in compiling a new kernel using make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image dpkg -i ../kernel-image...
and I have a couple of questions, just to understand things better: in /boot, I have vmlinuz-2.0.34 and no ``old'' vmlinuz has been saved; I had copied the original Debian 2.0.34 kernel to Debianvmlinuz-2.0.34 and made a symbolic link to it from / (everything works with lilo). Why does the original kernel have permissions -rwxr-xr-x, while the new one (vmlinuz-2.0.34) has -rw-r--r--? Now there are the two files System-map-2.0.34 and config-2.0.34: why there were none before? My old /lib/modules/2.0.34 had been renamed to *.save and it contained a subdirectory pcmcia; the new /lib/modules/2.0.34 doesn't. I need to use an ethernet PCMCIA card (ACCTON EN 2212) which has always worked well with the original Debian kernel: have I missed anything in menuconfig? Is it created the first time I use the card (I am presently at home and will try it only on monday)? Among the options I think might be relevant to this question, I have selected CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_MODULES, CONFIG_KERNELD, CONFIG_INET, CONFIG_NETDEVICES, CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET (is this needed for PCMCIA or only for internal cards, by the way? In the subsequent entries for card types, I found no mention of PCMCIAs; in the Ethernet-HOWTO there is no mention about compiling options for the ACCTON EN 2212: hence I selected no special card support. Should I have selected CONFIG_NET_ISA? In the PCMCIA HOWTO, it is said that only networking support should be specified), CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA (not as a module: is that the problem?). Thank you. Remo ________________________________________________________ | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland | |____________________________|___________________________| | badii "at" psi.ch | http://www1.psi.ch/~badii | |____________________________|___________________________|
