|
Home > Archive > Red Hat Kernel > March 2004 > Hardware detection after kernel updgrade
You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread.
To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to
this thread please [click here]
| Author |
Hardware detection after kernel updgrade
|
|
|
| i am learning how to compile my own linux kernel for redhat 9. i have
recently JUST managed to get it to work, sort of.
i upgraded to kernel 2.4.24 (i know, 2.6 is newest but i want to learn
basics with 2.4 first) i finally worked out how to get it to boot into
the new kernel and i resolved the issue about kernel panic cannot find init.
however, my ethernet and soundcard are no longer supported so i can't
get on the internet or hear anything. i already configured the modules
in make xconfig stage. is there something else that needs to be tweaked
after compiling the kernel? or should things be configured in xconfig
and should work in theory?
thanks
Alvin
| |
| Alexander Dalloz 2004-02-05, 11:36 am |
| On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 20:25:27 +0000 alvin wrote:
> i am learning how to compile my own linux kernel for redhat 9. i have
> recently JUST managed to get it to work, sort of.
>
> i upgraded to kernel 2.4.24 (i know, 2.6 is newest but i want to learn
> basics with 2.4 first) i finally worked out how to get it to boot into
> the new kernel and i resolved the issue about kernel panic cannot find init.
>
> however, my ethernet and soundcard are no longer supported so i can't
> get on the internet or hear anything. i already configured the modules
> in make xconfig stage. is there something else that needs to be tweaked
> after compiling the kernel? or should things be configured in xconfig
> and should work in theory?
>
> thanks
>
> Alvin
If you choose in xconfig to compile the ethernet and soundcard drivers to
be fix in the kernel - what I do not recommend - you will have nothing to
do but to compile the kernel and to the beast. If you choosed to compile
the hardware support as modules be sure to have initiated the compilation
with make modules and installed them with make modules_install. They will
be installed in /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/.
Alexander
--
Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany
PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999
PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
| |
| Scott MacKay 2004-03-04, 11:35 am |
| Agreed. The key is that not everything is compiled in by default. If
you know the names of the components then check if the drivers are
compiled in by running the menuconfig (or your preferred method). It is
likely that the drivers were not selected for inclusion.
-Scott
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 20:25:27 +0000 alvin wrote:
>
>
>
>
> If you choose in xconfig to compile the ethernet and soundcard drivers to
> be fix in the kernel - what I do not recommend - you will have nothing to
> do but to compile the kernel and to the beast. If you choosed to compile
> the hardware support as modules be sure to have initiated the compilation
> with make modules and installed them with make modules_install. They will
> be installed in /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/.
>
> Alexander
>
>
|
|
|
|
|