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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: lforrestster AT gmail.com, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] USB modem and wireless, was Development Tools for BL (fb)
  • Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:03:41 +0000 (UTC)

If you have the 2.4.19 source code and the kernel config file (or even without that), you can compile your own 2.4.19 kernel with unix.o and the usb mouse and keyboard built-in instead of as modules (and also leave out junk you do not need until you break it, then put it back).

BL list members taught me to compile kernels. I made lots of broken ones.

I think it goes (after uncompressing source code as instructed for SW and symlinking it to /usr/lib/2.4.19/build):

make config - answer a lot of questions with defaults based on the previous config or with reference to Steven's config, but Y to unix and the usb hid devices. You can get rid of stuff you do not use. My kernels are under 700K and do framebuffer, scsi, sound, nfs, etc.

make dep

make bzImage - 20 min on a 200Mhz, 5 on a 600Mhz, less on yours

I forget what part of the compiler packages you don't need for compiling just kernel. Don't know if BL3 stuff will work, BL2 (Sw7.1) did for 2.4.31.

Sindi

I don't think that will help. The problem seems to be missing network
support in the Debian kernel. (It wants an extra module but it can't
find modprobe since BL3 does not use it.)


Right on the money, David! I built a 2.4.19 tree in /lib/modules

/modules/2.4.19/kernel/net/unix and cped unix.o there and added
insmod -f unix to /etc/rc and X is now running fine on BL3.

Except the mouse doesn't work, but that's just a matter of moving
some more modules over. USB/HID stuff.




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