kernel compile gone wrong.

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Sun Sep 23 13:26:23 EDT 2001 

I think he doesn't need Samba yet. That's for file sharing between a linux 
and NT box. His current problem is a non-networked linux box with no modem 
access. It just seems that using the sneaker net is an unfortunate 
choice--though he hasn't said a lot about his environment. He has said his 
NT workstation accesses the net over a "network" which IO take to be a 
lan.
 On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> He also would need to configure samba,
> which is not a task for a newby.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:54:48AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > I don't understand. A Win NT server on your lan can serve you ip whether 
> > or not your client machine is linux or Wuindows, or something else. This 
> > doesn't matter. If you have ethernet in your linux computer, plug it into 
> > the lan and provide the appropriate data via ifconfig and route.
> >  On Sun, 
> > 23 Sep 2001, Tim Burgess wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've read the cvs documentation, but I don't have an internet connection
> > > active on my Linux box at this time - my access to my ISP is via a networked
> > > Windows NT box (OK, I know you guys are gonna hate me now - grin!).  This
> > > means, I would guess, that the cvs route is now closed to me until I get my
> > > Linux dial-up issue sorted.  I've crated a new source tree based on 2.4.9
> > > and patched it for ac10, so can I manually patch using the SpeakUp tar ball
> > > as I did for 0.09, or is this really a kiss of death?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the help so far folks, just this last hurdle to go and I should
> > > be there with speech on an up-to-date kernel.  If I can get this far then I
> > > can progress to Internet access from this box using my ISDN card and a Squid
> > > proxy.  Should be fun!
> > > 
> > > cheers.
> > > 
> > > Tim
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Steve Holmes
> > > Sent: 23 September 2001 14:00
> > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > Subject: RE: kernel compile gone wrong.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Since you have the speakup 0.10a archive, look in there for a README.cvs
> > > or CVS and read that. It explains a bit more about the checkout process
> > > mentioned above. Like mentioned elseware, do *NOT* put the old speakup
> > > into the kernel source tree.  Use the fresh kernel source before running
> > > checkout.
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I can. you don't need to get the tar.gz archive.
> > > > all you need is the kernel sources from ftp://ftp.kernel.org and then the
> > > > checkout script from
> > > > ftp://linux-speakup.org .
> > > > then you do chmod 755 checkout to make it executeable,
> > > > and run it.
> > > > after of course you've unpacked the kernel source tree.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Tim Burgess wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried compiling the 2.4.9 kernel without the patch, so you might have
> > > > > answered my question as well.  However, I'm confused about the "CVS"
> > > > > reference for SpeakUp.  I've been out of the SpeakUp loop for a while
> > > (I'm
> > > > > running 0.09 under kernel 2.2.16 at the moment).  The only SpeakUp code
> > > I
> > > > > can find on the web/FTP site is a tar.gz.  The installation
> > > documentation
> > > > > that I have seems to indicate that all I need to do is unpack the file
> > > into
> > > > > /usr/src, change to the SpeakUp directory and execute ./install.  It did
> > > > > occur to me that I might (or might not) need to do the patch as per the
> > > 0.09
> > > > > version.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dazed and confused - can you advise?
> > > > >
> > > > > P.S.  Just to show that I'm still a complete newbie, how do I delete a
> > > > > directory containing files and sub-dirs in one go?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers.
> > > > >
> > > > > Tim
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Frank Carmickle
> > > > > Sent: 23 September 2001 12:18
> > > > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > > Subject: Re: kernel compile gone wrong.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Shaun
> > > > >
> > > > > Your errors are with incompatible versions of speakup and a kernel I do
> > > > > believe.  Looks like you tried building current cvs against 2.4.4.  I
> > > > > don't see any reason why you would want to build 2.4.4 at this point.  I
> > > > > suggest that you build 2.4.9ac10.  This can be accomplished by getting
> > > the
> > > > > 2.4.9 source tarball and the ac10 patch which can be found at
> > > > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.9/patch-2.4.
> > > > > 9-ac10.gz
> > > > > To patch the ac patch make sure the the 2.4.9 source is in
> > > /usr/src/linux
> > > > > then make a link to this called linux.ac This can be done by 'ln -s
> > > linux
> > > > > linux.ac' from with in the /usr/src dir.  Then from /usr/src do
> > > 'patch -p0
> > > > > <patch-2.4.9-ac10'  Of course this assumes that you already gunziped
> > > > > it.  Then use the checkout script to apply cvs of speakup.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > ok I'm man enough to admit it. I've got a major problem I think.
> > > > > > or at least a minor one I can't sort out for some reason.
> > > > > > I don't know exactly why, but I seem to have a problem with my kernel
> > > > > > compile. I'm trying to compile kernel 2.4.4 for slackware 7.1 and I
> > > run
> > > > > > into some trouble when it gets to the vt.o part.
> > > > > > I've attached a copy of my image.log compressed of course to see if
> > > anyone
> > > > > > else either has had this problem or knows of a way to figure it out.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > >      Frank Carmickle
> > > > > phone:     412 761-9568
> > > > > email:     frankiec at dryrose.com
> > > > >
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> > 				Janina Sajka, Director
> > 				Technology Research and Development
> > 				Governmental Relations Group
> > 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp

Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
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