Subject: Re: Palm sync with YDL
From: Scott Frankel (leknarf@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Sep 09 2001 - 18:00:11 MDT
Looks like IrDA was not compiled into the kernel I've got (the one from
the YDL2.0 Tasty Morsels CD).
Just to test the waters, I launched make menuconfig. That failed because
I don't have ncurses installed. (What's ncurses?) Then I tried make xconfig.
That fails because it can't find some hdr files: stdio.h, string.h, &c. I've
tried in dirs that have been installed via rpm and srpm; the later from the
Source CD. I'd've thought that'd be all the source I'd need. No?
I can see that this is going to be painful. The links to the Kernel-Howto
pages are helpful, but haven't spit the answer out at me yet.
Anyone have a quick, 1, 2, 3 on how to compile a kernel? I like what
I've got running so far (2.4); I just want to add IR functionality to it.
Thanks
Scott
On Sunday 09 September 2001 03:10, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Scott Frankel wrote:
> > Do the "options set in the kernel configuration" refer to my compiling a
> > new kernel?
>
> Only if they are not in your precompiled kernel.
>
> > Conversely, is there a way to determine if the kernel I've got installed
> > (2.4.4-1asmp) has those config params already set?
>
> Look on the configs subdirectory for the kernel source RPM.
> The serial port stuff shuold be on, but I'm not sure about the
> IrDA stuff.
>
> You could also:
>
> cd /lib/modules
> find . -name *irda*
>
> and see if it prints anything. If so, then your kernel has the
> IrDA modules compiled for it.
>
> - Paul
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