recompiling kernel, make not found

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Topic: recompiling kernel, make not found
started by: huzzzo

Posted by huzzzo on Nov. 08 2006,22:07

hi there,
I'm going to recompiling the kernel because I have a wireless rt2500 chip PCMCIA card.
Now, ndiswrapper doesn't see it, dunno why...
I want to recompile kernel without SMP and use native linux drivers for rt2500.

It is my first experience on compiling kernel for linux, I read an howto, and I need "make" isn't it?
then, on DSL if I write "make config" it says command not found.

I tried to do "sudo apt-get install make" but it hangs up on install...

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 08 2006,22:17

See the gcc* packages in mydsl - comes with gcc which you'll need as a compiler anyways.

Posted by MDG on Nov. 13 2006,03:54

Huzzzo,

Any success? I'm trying to do the same thing.

I have a Belkin F5D7010 (version 6) wifi card pciid: 1804:0301

MDG

Posted by huzzzo on Nov. 13 2006,20:40

I have recompiled the kernel successfully, but there is a problem:
edit:

Code Sample

kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

funny

Posted by MDG on Nov. 16 2006,00:23

Huzzzo, I have no idea what that message means - sorry!

By chance did you compile the RT2500 driver for the 2.4.x kernal or the 2.6.x kernal?

I've also heard a claim that using the windows version of the RT2500 with ndiswrapper works, but I only read success with that once.

I'm kinda limited here as I only have DSL installed on an old IBM Thinkpad 310ED, 133 MHz, 64 MB memory and a dial-up connection (no other Linux installed).

MDG