Kernel 2.4.4 drivers


Subject: Kernel 2.4.4 drivers
From: michael (mlibby@qwest.net)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 08:19:41 MDT


Forgive me if this is something simple and I'm just a clueless newbie-- but
I've never dealt much with kernel issues, and until YDL2 came out I just
figured I'd live with dual-booting into Mac OS to operate all the USB
peripherals I have for my iMac. I be glad to RTFM, but everything I can find
on kernel stuff either assumes you already know what you're doing or is
hopelessly geared to x86.

I've installed the 2.4.4 kernel RPMs from Tasty Morsels, but there appear to
be almost no USB drivers included with that (from looking in
/lib/modules/.../usb). I'm trying to get my Epson Stylus 740 going, so I
figure I need at least the printer module. I'm fairly certain I've got enough
HOWTOs for printing once I get the kernel correct.

I ran through a kernel compile (make xconfig; make dep; make; make modules),
and I set the USB printer and scanner stuff to Y rather than M. (Should I
have just set it to M?). Then when I'm done I have a new vmlinux and a new
System.map, which I renamed, put in /boot, and changed the symlinks to point
to the new bits. I couldn't find any replacement module-info or zImage files.

But when I restart it still looks like the stock kernel from YDL (the login
label matches the label on the /boot files), and I have no idea how to check
to see if my new kernel with the drivers I need is the one that loaded.

I see that the 2.2.19 kernel has all the modules I might need for USB, so I
suppose I could use that, but... I still want to learn this stuff.

Thanks,
Michael.



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