Hi Alex,
Did you do an 'make mrproper'?  You usually just have to do it the first time
you make a particular kernel, but you get strange results if you don't.  So
the steps would be

   cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
   make mrproper
   copy your config file in from wherever
   edit your config file
   make oldconfig
   make dep
   make bzImage
   make modules
   make modules_install

Troy

Alex Finch wrote:
>  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
>
>
> --
>  Alex Finch, Research Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University.


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