Rebuilt kernel => no consoles?

[David Abrahams]

David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> writes:

> Luis <lemsx1 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 8/28/06, David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>>> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:
>>>
>>> > David Abrahams wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Oh, and now I remember what made me so reluctant to do this.  The last
>>> >> time I tried to rebuild the stack, the very first thing it wanted to
>>> >> do was blow away all of the relevant existing files in
>>> >> /lib/modules/..., which means that undoing the install if something
>>> >> goes wrong is tricky at best.  How do you deal with that issue?
>>> >>
>>> > 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?
>>
>> apt-get source linux-source
>> cd /usr/src/
>> tar xjf linux-source*.tar.bz2
>> cd linux-source<TAB>
>> cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
>> make oldconfig
>> # download my interactive make-kpkg.sh
>> # http://lems.kiskeyix.org/toolbox/?f=make-kpkg.sh
>> make-kpkg.sh
>> # answer a few questions
>> # and your .deb packages are now in /usr/src/*.deb
>
> Will this somehow integrate the build/packaging of these modules I
> have to download from sourceforge (ieee80211 and ipw3945)?  Does the
> interactive make-kpkg prompt me to place the source somewhere, and ask
> me what the installation steps are?  The former doesn't even have a
> configure step, IIRC.

So I'm trying it right now, and it just seems to be barelling ahead
without asking me for these parts I need to add.  What step did I
leave out?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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