[nmglug] kernel modules,

[Andres Paglayan]

Thanks for the detailed instructions,
kernel and its modules are certainly an amazing world,
I am just afraid of diving in since I need to keep my life going,


Karl Hegbloom wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 11:10 -0600, Andres Paglayan wrote:
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>>Finally I have it running,
>>had to download the source from other place, for any estrange reason the 
>>Debian source wasn't working,
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>With the Debian source, you need the 'kernel-tree' package that matches
>your running kernel, as well as the module source package, and
>'kernel-package'.  After you install them, you "cd /usr/src", and then
>unpack them right there.  The modules will unpack into "modules/NAME",
>and the kernel into "kernel-source-VERSION/".
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>Next, "cd" into the kernel souce, and "cp /root/config-VERSION .config",
>then "make-kpkg clean".  VERSION is the part after the Linux version
>numbers in "uname -r".  Now run:
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> make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=VERSION configure modules_image
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>That causes it to run "make oldconfig" and set up the kernel source so
>that it's configured the same as your running kernel.  It then compiles
>the module source, and creates a .deb package of the compiled module.
>Install that, and you're all set.
>
>Karl.
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