I have just tried installing 3.03 on a new machine.

  I have a few problems, which I hope people can help me with.

  1) Mozilla hung when I typed any key. I installed a newer version (1.7) and
that fixed it ( no help needed here!).

  2) No USB devices are recognised - they are onboard VIA devices on an ASUS
motherboard.

-------------------------------------------------------------
  00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
         Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V600 motherboard
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
         I/O ports at c400 [size=32]
         Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
modprobe usb-uhci

/lib/modules/2.4.21-20.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/host/usb-uhci.o: init_module: No
such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     I doubt this is a SL specific problem so I have been asking for help on the
Linux-usb-users mailing list.

  In order to debug the problem I want to turn on `Verbose USB debugging' in the
kernel. This means I need to recompile the kernel, and I am having trouble doing
this. Here is what I tried:

  cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
  cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
  edit .config>
  CONFIG_USB_DEBUG=y
   make dep
   make bzImage
   make modules

fails to compile, tried removing each module that failed to compile from
.config

CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID=n
CONFIG_CIPE=n
CONFIG_SCSI_IPS=n
... and many more

but gave up when the floppy driver would not compile!


 ===================================================================================
  Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/drivers/block'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigr
aphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common  -Wno-unused -fomit-frame-pointer
-pipe -freorder
-blocks -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS
-include /usr/src
/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/modversions.h  -nostdinc -iwithprefix include
-DKBUILD_BA
SENAME=floppy  -c -o floppy.o floppy.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
                  from /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/list.h:6,
                  from /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:12,
                  from floppy.c:148:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/asm/processor.h:61: warning: parameter names
(without t
ypes) in function declaration
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/asm/processor.h:61: field
`loops_per_jiffy_R_ver_str' d
eclared as a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/asm/processor.h:84: invalid suffix on
integer constant
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/asm/processor.h:84: syntax error before
numeric constan
t
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/asm/processor.h:84: warning: function
declaration isn't
  a prototype
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/asm/processor.h:269: invalid suffix on
integer constant
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/asm/processor.h:269: syntax error before
numeric consta
nt
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/asm/processor.h:269: warning: function
declaration isn'
t a prototype
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/asm/processor.h:273: warning: parameter
names (without
types) in function declaration
In file included from floppy.c:148:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:190: invalid suffix on
integer constant
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:190: syntax error before
numeric constan
t
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:190:
`inter_module_register_R_ver_str' d
eclared as function returning a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:190: warning: function
declaration isn't
  a prototype
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:191: invalid suffix on
integer constant
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:191: syntax error before
numeric constan
t
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:191:
`inter_module_unregister_R_ver_str'
  declared as function returning a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:191: warning: function
declaration isn't
  a prototype
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:192:
`inter_module_get_R_ver_str' declar
ed as function returning a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:192: warning: parameter names
(without t
ypes) in function declaration
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:193:
`inter_module_get_request_R_ver_str
' declared as function returning a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:193: warning: parameter names
(without t
ypes) in function declaration
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:194: invalid suffix on
integer constant
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:194: syntax error before
numeric constan
t
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:194:
`inter_module_put_R_ver_str' declar
ed as function returning a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:194: warning: function
declaration isn't
  a prototype
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:203:
`try_inc_mod_count_R_ver_str' decla
red as function returning a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include/linux/module.h:203: warning: parameter names
(without t
ypes) in function declaration
make[2]: *** [floppy.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/drivers/block'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_block] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
 ===============================================================================

  Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? What is the correct way to recompile the
kernel?

        thanks

                Alex


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  Alex Finch, Research Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University.