Retrieve sources for 2.6.8.1 from http://www.isurf.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/

(that's the latest stable, might as well go big or go home). Why that site? It's a Canadian mirror of kernel.org with 155mbits - I got 570KB/s.

Configure kernel.

Build with:

quadra# make-kpkg clean
quadra# make-kpkg --append-to-version -watform --revision mpatters.1 binary modules_image

Now, quadra (and the other Dells) use a Broadcom network interface which in previous (2.4) kernels requires an external module to be built. However, sarge found the network interface just fine on aransas as tg3, so I built that right into the kernel on quadra (see attached config). So that should be sufficient.

gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DDBG=0 -DT3_JUMBO_RCV_RCB_ENTRY_COUNT=256 -DNICE_SUPPORT -DPCIX_TARGET_WORKAROUND=1 -DINCLUDE_TBI_SUPPORT -DINCLUDE_5701_AX_FIX=1 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include   -c -o b57um.o b57um.c
In file included from b57um.c:19:
mm.h:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/asm/smp.h:18,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/linux/smp.h:17,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/linux/sched.h:23,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from mm.h:33,
                 from b57um.c:19:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/asm/mpspec.h:6: mach_mpspec.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/linux/smp.h:17,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/linux/sched.h:23,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from mm.h:33,
                 from b57um.c:19:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/asm/smp.h:71: mach_apicdef.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/linux/irq.h:20,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/asm/hardirq.h:6,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/linux/interrupt.h:12,
                 from mm.h:48,
                 from b57um.c:19:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include/asm/irq.h:16: irq_vectors.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [b57um.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/bcm5700/src'
make[1]: *** [build-modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/bcm5700'
Module /usr/src/modules/bcm5700 failed.
Hit return to Continue

So let's take out the bcm5700 driver, if we can - remove all drivers but the tg3 and rebuild with same make-kpkg line.

That died too. :~( Now what... Ohh. It's building things from /usr/src/modules/bcm5700, but why? I didn't tell it to go in there! mv it to modules_whoknows and start again with "make-kpkg clean" and the same command line as before with binary modules_image. Maybe it's just looking in /usr/src/modules and finding the bcm5700 driver there and assuming that means I want to build it.

How odd. I wound up with a kernel-headers .deb (which I installed) but nothing else - no kernel-image, particularly.

Google, and try this:

1>(root)@quadra[167]% make-kpkg clean ; make-kpkg buildpackage --append-to-version -watform --revision mpatters.1
la la
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1'
 dpkg-source -b linux-2.6.8.1
dpkg-parsechangelog: error: cannot open ./linux-2.6.8.1/debian/changelog to find format: No such file or directory
dpkg-source: error: syntax error in parsed version of changelog at line 0: empty file
make: *** [stamp-buildpackage] Error 29

So I suspect it's angry that I'm not using a debian package for the kernel source.

ooo, should have checked backports.org.

wget http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/kernel-2.6/binary-i386/kernel-source-2.6.7/kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3_all.deb

Install that, untar the sources, and also grab http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/kernel-2.6/binary-i386/kernel-source-2.6.7/kernel-package/kernel-package_8.093_all.deb and install that.

cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.7 && make-kpkg clean

now make menuconfig again. (This is why I hate Linux.) And: make-kpkg clean && make-kpkg --append-to-version -watform --revision mpatters.1 binary modules_image. And I still don't get a kernel-image package.