Kernel 2.4.34 Development

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Kernel 2.4.34 Development
started by: roberts

Posted by roberts on July 20 2007,14:19

Please use this area for discussion of Kernel2.4.34 and module development.

Thanks,
Robert

Posted by roberts on July 20 2007,14:30

My development system was setup before many of these newer extensions were built. Basically it consists of a traditional hard drive installation of DSL that always boots to runlevel 2. Then I added the following:

# mydsl-load dsl-dpkg.dsl system
-- edit /etc/apt/sources.lst to use sarge (currently old-stable) not woody --
# apt-get update
# apt-get install make
# apt-get install gcc-2.95
# apt-get install dialog
# mydsl-load gnu-utils.dsl system
# apt-get ncurses-base
# apt-get libncurses5-dev

I have compiled separate modules for kernel 2.4.34
1. ltmodem
2. unionfs
3. cloop
4. ndiswrapper
5. fuse
6. prism2
7. madwifi

Posted by Juanito on July 26 2007,04:53

I followed the steps outlined above and got a couple of surprises:

Code Sample

# apt-get install -d dialog
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
adduser base-config cdrecord cloop-module console-common console-data console-tools debconf debconf-i18n dhcp3-common fluxbox fontconfig hotplug ifupdown libfontconfig1 libgtk1.2 libxaw7 libxft2 lilo netbase nfs-common pcmcia-cs ppp pppconfig pppoe pppoeconf pump rxvt-beta ssh ted-gtk usbview xbase-clients xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfree86-common xlibmesa4-gl xlibs xmms xserver-common xterm xutils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dialog

Is this the expected behaviour?

Also, I got a couple of the more usual apt-get messages:

Code Sample

# apt-get install -d ncurses-base
...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.2.20020112a-7) but 5.3.20030719-1 is to be installed
Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed
# apt-get install -d libc6-dev
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-11.8) but 2.3.2.ds1-10 is to be installed

I could try and find the appropriate deb(s), but I had the impression from the post above that this kind of error was not expected?

Edit: I guess I could force the issue by using libncurses5-dev 5.3.20030719-1 and libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-10 but I searched for ages without finding them - is there an obscure mirror for this?

Posted by roberts on July 26 2007,21:10

Use sarge not woody and you will be fine.

I will edit my original post to reflect such.