I have installed a precompiled kernel from Linuxant and that seems to work good. My card now works well. I am still puzzled why the kernel failed to build. Thanks for your comments. Jaap --- Jeffrey Buell <jbuell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Jonathan, thanks for your comments. > > > > I have downloaded the latest source of the kernel > from > > one of the Fedora ftp mirrors, installed this as > > described in the Release Notes of Fedora Core 3. > Then > > I executed 'make clean' and 'make bzImage', first > by > > using the CONFIG_4KSTACKS set (default), which > > succeeded, and then by disabling this setting, > after > > which the build failed with errors mentioned. > > > > It is indeed strange, and I am simply interested > to > > understand what is going wrong. Next thing I'd > like to > > do is take the latest kernel from kernel.org and > try > > to do the same. > > > > The Linuxant Driverloader solution is working, > that > > much I did try, but I preferred to do things > myself. > > Not for the sake of saving myself $20 for that > > solution, but to satisfy my own curiosity. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Jaap > > I verified this problem using FC4, release 1261. I > don't actually need 8K > myself but the point is that, under make menuconfig, > if kernel debugging is > turned off then 8K is the default which leads to an > undefined reference to > irq_ctx_init in function init_IRQ. It may not be > reasonable to expect the > kernel to build under all combinations of configs, > but it should build for > default configs. > > Jeff > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
