[Prism54-users] Debian install

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

too many -----
just use two
	Luis

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, James Hosken wrote:

>
>
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > apt-get install hotplug
> > dpkg -L hotplug | grep firmware
> >
> > see if you find firmware.agent if not you need to use the unstable hotplug
> > package. You can possibly also just add the file if you don't have it:
> >
> > http://prism54.org/~hvr/firmware.agent
> >
> > You don't really need to use debian's make-kpkg to make the kernel.
> > But if you insist onto doing it, IIRC it's something like:
> >
> > apt-get install build-essential libncurses-dev tx8.3-dev
> > cd /path/kernel-source/
> > make-kpkg clean
> > make-kpkg --config=menuconfig ----append_to_version=prism54 kernel_image
> > cd ..
> > dpkg -i kernel-image-something_.deb
> >
>
> It's all working up to the point where I beed to run
> make-kpkg --config=menuconfig ----append_to_version=prism54 kernel_image
>
> What are the oprions I need to put in here?
> append_to_version?
> kernel_image?
>
>
> I have apt-get kernel-source-2.6.0-test9
>
>
> When I come to make the .deb do I need to add any other options to the
> kernal compile from the default?
> How can I make sure that the the machine will boot once I have installed
>   the new kernel.deb?
>
> Cheers
> James
>
>
>
>
> >
> > 	Luis
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, James Hosken wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I've just bought a SMC 2802W PCI card and I now need to install and
> >>configure it. I'm newish to debian/linux as well, so need some help.
> >>
> >>I'm running debian testing with the 2.4.18-bf2 kernel, I have installed
> >>the PCI card.
> >>I have read the README, but it doesn't make too much sence to me.
> >>I know that debian does kernal compiles in a different way to most,
> >>please could some one give me some debian spercific instructions.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>James
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