Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

2004-12-30 Thread R G Cottrell
Hi all, While I'm waiting for my kernel to compile I've been noticing that from time to time there's a lot of activity on my modem at times when I'm not doing anything to cause any transfers. My modem only has a single data LED, so I can't tell whether the data is coming or going. My guess is tha

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-30 Thread R G Cottrell
I'm back after getting some sleep. Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:45:46PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: Hi folks, I asked this on debian-kernel about 8 hours ago but didn'

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:22:01PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: cancer wrote: as far as i know xconfig should read the .config file of the running kernel if there is no other. i have poor experience with that, but it worked for me for a couple of times. In my

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: Hi folks, I asked this on debian-kernel about 8 hours ago but didn't get any replies. I've tried about half a dozen times over the last year to compile a working kernel for my old 233MHz machine. I

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000 or thereabouts, R G Cottrell wrote: As far as I can tell, the latest testing kernel image for Pentium is: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-586tsc_2.4.27-6_i386.deb (11.5M) What commands do I need to issue in order to generate a .deb th

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
cancer wrote: as far as i know xconfig should read the .config file of the running kernel if there is no other. i have poor experience with that, but it worked for me for a couple of times. In my experience, make xconfig and make menuconfig both read the .config file in the source directory, whi

How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread R G Cottrell
Hi folks, I asked this on debian-kernel about 8 hours ago but didn't get any replies. I've tried about half a dozen times over the last year to compile a working kernel for my old 233MHz machine. I thought I might have had a defective processor (a K6) but I've changed it to a genuine Intel Pentium