Re: ethner card problem

["Ulrike Schmidt" <ulrike@example.com>]

This was more complicated than I thought, and unfortunately was not crowned
by success, so here is a cleaned up log of my attempts ...

>First, do apt-get install kernel-package.  _Read the docs_; it will
>make life a lot easier if you put the kernel sources and the pcmcia-cs
>sources in the right places relative to one another.

The kernel-package-7.04.potato.3/README suggests to unpack the kernel
packages in /tmp/linux or similar.

The kernel-package-7.04.potato.3/kernel/README.modules says the modules must
appear in a standard location, choosen to be $(MODULE_LOC)/<mod-name>/.
MODULE_LOC defaults to /usr/src/modules. The base of the kernel source tree
is usually the /usr/src/linux directory.


So if I go with the recommendation of the README I would make the
directories /tmp/linux and /tmp/modules and unpack the sources into these
directories. Right?

>Next, get the kernel and the pcmcia-cs sources.


I unsuccessfully tried
    apt-get source kernel
    apt-get source kernel-source
and finally got what I wanted with
    apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17

This created /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2, which I unpacked in
/tmp/linux, so I got a directory
/tmp/linux/kernel-source-2.2.17.

Getting the pcmcia-cs sources left me with three files and one directory. I
unpacked pcmcia-cs_3.1.8.orig.tar.gz and compared it with the content of the
already unpacked directory, and there were some differences. I decided to
stick to the automatically unpacked one and tried to copy it into
/tmp/modules, but there are some symlinks to non-existent files:

debian:/tmp/modules# cp -R ../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/ .
cp: ../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/config.h: No such file or directory
cp: ../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory
cp: ../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/compile.h: No such file or directory

debian:/tmp/modules# ls -l ../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/*.h
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Sep 20 22:53
../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/compile.h -> ../pcmcia/config.h
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Sep 20 22:53
../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/config.h -> ../pcmcia/config.h
-r--r--r--    1 uli      uli           319 Sep 15  1999
../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/init.h
-r--r--r--    1 uli      uli          4330 Aug  5  1999
../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/pnp_bios.h
-r--r--r--    1 uli      uli          3156 Aug  5  1999
../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/pnp_resource.h
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Sep 20 22:53
../pcmcia-cs-3.1.8/include/linux/version.h -> ../pcmcia/config.h


To deal with or escape this problem instead of copying I just made a symlink
to this directory in /tmp/modules, following the README.modules.

There was also written something about setting MODULE_LOC in the environment
or in the
configuration file. Did not know where the configuration file was or what it
was called but after some grepping my last hypothesis was that I should put
a line into kernel-pkg.conf with
    MODULE_LOC := /tmp/modules
To be on the safe side I went for setting the environment variable.

According to the README.modules I should now go to the kernel source tree,
usually
/usr/src/linux, in my case /tmp/linux and

>Do
>
>make-kpkg --revision uli+0 menuconfig  # configure your own kernel version

debian:/tmp/linux# make-kpkg --revision uli+0 menuconfig
Error: Unknown target menuconfig
Known Targets are:
============================================================================
===
|     Targets                      |   Automatically builds
|
============================================================================
===
| clean                            |
|
| buildpackage                     | Builds the whole package
|
| binary                           | Builds
kernel_{source,headers,image,doc} |
|       binary-indep               |
|
|            kernel_source         |
|
|            kernel_doc            |
|
|       binary-arch                |
|
|            kernel_headers        |
|
|            kernel_image          | Builds build
|
|                           build  |
|
| modules                          |
|
| modules_image                    |
|
| modules_config                   |
|
| modules_clean                    |
|
| configure                        | If you wish to edit files
|
|                                  | generated by make config
|
============================================================================
===
See /usr/share/kernel-package/rules for details.

I didn't understand what is written in rules, so I  tried configure instead
of menuconfig, but:

debian:/tmp/linux# make-kpkg --revision uli+0 configure
We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel source directory
tree. Since we are trying to make a kernel package, that does not make
sense.  Please change directory to an top level linux kernel source
directory, and try again. (If in case I am wrong, and this is indeed
a top level linux kernel source directory, then I have gotten sadly
out of date with current kernels, and you should upgrade kernel-package)

So I went one level down, wondering whether my hypothesis about the
locations of the modules was still correct, but that did not matter for the
moment, since:

debian:/tmp/linux# cd kernel-source-2.2.17/
debian:/tmp/linux/kernel-source-2.2.17# make-kpkg --revision uli+0 configure
test ! -f stamp-debian && test ! -f debian/official && \
      rm -rf debian && install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian
test ! -f stamp-debian -a \
               ! \( -f debian/official -a -f debian/control \) && \
   sed -e 's/=V/2.2.17/g'        -e 's/=D/uli+0/g' \
       -e 's/=A/i386/g'   -e 's/=SA//g' \
               -e 's/=L/lilo (>= 19.1), /g' \
               -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer
<unknown@example.com
in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>/g'  \
                 /usr/share/kernel-package/Control > debian/control
test ! -f stamp-debian && test ! -f debian/official && \
   sed -e 's/=V/2.2.17/g' -e 's/=D/uli+0/g' \
    -e 's/=A/i386/g' -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer
<unknown@example.com
gured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>/g' \
        /usr/share/kernel-package/changelog > debian/changelog
test ! -f debian/rules && \
   install -p    -o root -g root -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules
debian/r
ules
touch stamp-debian
test -f .config || (test -f .config.save && \
                    cp -pf .config.save .config) || \
                true
test -f .config || (test -f /usr/share/kernel-package/Config/config.i586 &&
\
                    cp -pf /usr/share/kernel-package/Config/config.i586
.config)
 || \
                true
test -f .config || (test -f /usr/share/kernel-package/config && \
                    cp -pf /usr/share/kernel-package/config  .config) || \
                true
test -f .config ||
/bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
make: *** [.config] Error 2
debian:/tmp/linux/kernel-source-2.2.17#

So what did I do wrong?

Uli