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List:       ltsp-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Adding nic to kernel still no trivial?
From:       Richard Bos <radoeka () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2006-10-02 21:05:00
Message-ID: 200610022305.01618.radoeka () xs4all ! nl
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Hi Todd,

Op maandag 2 oktober 2006 21:27, schreef Todd Shoemaker:
> Richard,
>
> Depends on the definition of 'trivial'.  It does not require the LBE, so
> if you are familiar with building a kernel I found it to be fairly
> easy.  I built a custom kernel by downloading the source from
> kernel.org, then got the ltsp_kernel_kit.  There are kernel config files
> included in this kit, and I copied the latest config available to my
> 2.6.17.8 source (2.6.17.11 failed to work) as .config.  I built it as
> normal and ran make install && module_install, and ran the
> build_initramfs script in the kit.  I use a custom local version label
> for my kernels, so I had to update the script to find the modules (see
> below).  Once that is run, everything is ready, just update dhcp and
> restart the terminal.  I think is in the wiki, but I couldn't
> immediately find it just now.

Is it this page http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Build-LTSP-42
I found it by searching for 'ltsp_kernel_kit'.

I might be able to get the build going, but it ain't trivial ;)

> Around line 164, updated lines begin with ">" :
>
> for TAG in VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL EXTRAVERSION; do
>     eval `sed -ne "/^$TAG/s/[   ]//gp" ${KERNEL_SRC}/Makefile`
> done
>
>  >eval `grep "^CONFIG_LOCALVERSION" ${KERNEL_SRC}/.config`
>  >
>  >KERNEL_VER=${VERSION}.${PATCHLEVEL}.${SUBLEVEL}${EXTRAVERSION}${CONFIG_LO
>  >CALVERSION}
>
> Richard Bos wrote:
> > According to this email
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ltsp-discuss&m=111869034802184&w=2 it is
> > not trivial to add an nic driver to the kernel.  Today I wanted to pxe
> > boot an dell 110L which is equipped with an Broadcom 440 nic.  PXE went
> > fine, but the boot resulted in a kernel panic as there does not seem to
> > be driver for the broadcom 440 nic (according the net this should be
> > bcm4400).
> >
> > Is it still not trivial to add a kernel module to the ltsp kernel?
>
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