Rebuilt kernel => no consoles?

[Derek Broughton]

David Abrahams wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:
> 
>> Create a kernel with a custom version number.
> 
> I have done that.  But the ieee80211 Makefile uses whatever the
> current kernel is.  Are you saying I need to build the kernel, reboot
> into it, then rebuild ieee80211, or...
> 
> am I expected to read INSTALL, realize I need to set IEEE80211_INC,
> realize that doesn't cover the /lib/modules/... stuff, grep the
> Makefile for uname, and discover I need to set KVER and KERNELRELEASE
> too? ;-)
> 
> Seriously, does that work?  How do _you_ do it?
 
Seriously, I haven't done it in years, but all I ever did was run make-kpkg
and let it do its stuff.  Never a problem with losing an
existing /lib/modules/...
-- 
derek