[WBEL-users] rebuilding kernel with e1000

[Mário Gamito]

Hi,

This not the way to recompile a kernel that cames with any distro.
This is the way to compile a vanilla kernel.

What you have to do is download and install the SRPM of the kernel source.
Then, edit kernel.spec in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, add what you want and then
run
rpmbuild -ba kernel.spec
Next, run "rpm -Uvh the_new_kernel.rpm" that is in now in
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS
Give a check in /boot/grub/grub.conf just to rest assured that everything is
ok.
Reboot

That´s all.

The errors you are getting is because of the order of the bazzilion patches
that distros include in their kernel, that must be respected. Doing the way
you were doing, always fails in any distro.

Warm Regards,
Mário Gamito

> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org 
> [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Ronald Rood
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 4:31 PM
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: [WBEL-users] rebuilding kernel with e1000
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this was my first try to modify something in the kernel so I 
> might have done it wrong or incomplete. The kernel had no 
> support for the intel gigabit ethernet adapter so I tried to 
> include it.
> 
> in /usr/src/linux-2.4 I ran
> make mrproper
> make xconfig and selected the module e1000 for gigabit networking.
> make dep
> make bzImage
> make modules
> so far, so good, no errors and
> make modules_install which led to:
> mkdir -p pcmcia; \
> find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln 
> -sf ../{} pcmcia if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae 
> -F System.map 2.4.21-4.ELciber; fi
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-4.ELciber/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.o
> depmod:         e1000_clean
> 
> what did I do wrong ? or what did I miss ?
> 
> Ronald
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