you're close, me thinks. take a look here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0007/msg02482.html
it's a step-by-step write-up i did of how i got my voodoo3 board working, with the help of this list. A On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Stephen Joynt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm relatively new to linux, so please excuse the > naivety. > > I've recently installed potato, and I'm trying to add > support for my 3dfx Voodoo Banshee card. I've found > the 3dfx device driver on the CD and installed it, but > it seems to need to be compiled into the kernel. So I > found and installed the kernel source (v. 2.2.17), and > unzipped it into /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17, and > added a symlink from /usr/src/linux. All ok so far. > But I then tried doing a "make-kpkg modules_image" > from there (this was from the instructions > somewhere... in /usr/share/doc/device3dfx I think), > and there was an error - no .config file. > > Searching further, I eventually ran "make menuconfig", > which created the .config file. So I ran make-kpkg > again, and this time it says I'm missing a file > "modversions.h". > > On a hunch I installed the kernel-headers-2.2.17 > package, which seems to have the file in it, but since > it installs into /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17, it > doesn't seem to be visible when I try to make from the > /usr/src/linux dir. > > Can anyone help me? Is there something obvious I'm > missing? > > thanks, > - Steve. > > ===== > Steve Joynt [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~joynt/ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >