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Re: Darn USB printer
No, I was not suggesting she recompile her kernel. I was trying to tell
her how to determine if she has usb printer support enabled. If not then
she may need to recompile her kernel. From what I've seen the
/usr/src/linuz symlink to /usr/src/kernel-source.... is a pretty
standard install feature.
Kernel compiling seems to be one of the great mysteries in linux. At
least for a lot of people. Make xconfig is a great way to see what's
available and what it does without endangering your working machine.
Rod
[email protected] wrote:
>
> I didn't read his response to you, but if he has you
> recompiling your kernel for the usb stuff, (which he may
> well have) you'll need to know the following:
>
> "make xconfig" has nothing to do with your X Window
> setup. It's the command you issue (as root) from within
> /usr/src/linux to start the graphical kernel config.
> program. In order for this to work, you must already
> have /usr/src/linux set up as a symbolic link to
> /usr/src/kernel-sources-x.xx.xx.tar.gz or something like
> that. (I'm sure about the "kernel-sources" part of the
> filename, not so much about the ending -- it may be
> *.tgz. In any case, the x's represent whatever kernel
> version you're running.)
> So IF you have the kernel-sources file in /usr/src, then
> you can create the symlink thus:
> ln -s /usr/src/kernel-sources-x.xx.xx.tar.gz linux
> Then:
> cd /usr/src/linux
> Then:
> make xconfig (or subst. `menuconfig,' or simply `config')
> The first one is graphical and works only in X, the
> second two will work either in an xterm or at console.
> The last one is entirely question-and-answer driven. All
> three accomplish kernel configuration, just different
> interfaces.
>
> If you don't already have a file called
> "kernel-sources-2.4x-xx.tar.gz" or really similar (I'm
> assuming your kernel version is at least 2.4), you can
> download a .deb of it from the www.debian.org site.
> HTH,
> Mark
>
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> > Well I looked in my boot config and it is there so I am
> once again stumped.
> > You refrred to "make xconfig", what is that? Do you
> mean redo my X config?
> > Perhaps if I create th /dev t will function? Hmm..I
> think that this is a
> > little confusing for me.
> >
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