How to Recompile Kernel without PCMCIA SupportForum: HD Install Topic: How to Recompile Kernel without PCMCIA Support started by: xmrkite Posted by xmrkite on Dec. 23 2006,16:44
Hello. I have an old PCMCIA controller on my old Pentium 100mhz laptop (Cirrus Logic CL 6729).I have heard that in order for the pcmcia controller to work (it doesn't work out of the box with dsl linux), i need to recompile the kernel and exclude the kernel pcmcia support, then go and add the pcmcia-cs packavge as a module. I'm pretty new to linux and have never compiled a kernel. I guess i am suppossed to run: make menuconfig (select the options i want) make dep make clean make bzImage make Modules Make modules_install then i'm ready to go, copy my kernel to the /boot directory, change the lilo.conf file, run lilo and reboot. How do i obtain the original config that dsl 3.0.1 used in its kernel config so that i have a base to start from? Then how to I make the pcmcia-cs package run as a kernel module? Also, when i'm configuring the kernel in make menuconfig, some of the items are installed as modules...how do i set dsl to run/not run those modules? -Thanks Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 01 2007,00:11
the .config can be found in kernelsource.dsl which is actually contains the kernel headers.if they are installed as modules, either disable that in the kernel itself, or just remove the module binaries (or take them out of the modules.dep lists) |