Rebuilt kernel => no consoles?

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Tue Aug 29 15:27:36 UTC 2006


Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:

> 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/...

So how do you set up make-kpkg to build ieee80211 and ipw3945 as part
of its package?

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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