/opt/kernel, depmod

From: Alex Kirk (alex_at_schnarff.com)
Date: 09/01/03

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 23:46:52 GMT

    Hello All,

    First off, let me give a pre-emptive thanks to anyone who may help me on
    this list. I've been on the OpenBSD list for over two years now, and I've
    found that I need to RTFM, check archvies, and be as courteous as possible
    when asking questions on lists -- thus my thanks to start out. :-)

    Anyway, to the reason I'm coming here: first off, I've come to Debian via
    Knoppix, and I'm having some trouble "mainstreaming" my distribution --
    there's enough quirks in the Knoppix install that things aren't working
    quite right. The first of these issues is the contents of /opt/kernel:
    whenever I run depmod, I get a series of errors about
    /opt/kernel/modules.dep not being an ELF file, /opt/kernel/build being
    empty, and about a zillion unresolved symbols in /opt/kernel/alsa (though I
    did just upgrade from 2.4.20-xfs to 2.4.21, and I see that /opt/kernel/alsa
    is still unchanged, despite my having made and installed modules). I've not
    been successful finding a good explanation of what's supposed to be in this
    directory, and how I can clean it up properly; hopefully someone here can
    point me to such an explanation.

    Secondly, I'm having a *lot* of trouble getting my D-Link DWL-520 wirless
    NIC (Prism 2.5 chipset) to work under Debian. I'd found a tutorial at
    http://trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/hostap_20021012.shtml, and tried to
    install hostap. After a successful build, it won't install properly because
    of all of my depmod errors (it spits out 200+ lines of depmod's
    complaining); meanwhile, nothing is written to /var/log/messages as the
    tutorial tells me to expect -- though /var/log/messages is empty, while
    /var/log/messages.0 only goes through August 21, so there may be something
    wrong there as well. Hopefully someone knows how to help me resolve that
    issue, and/or can point me to a straightforward explanation of getting a
    wirless card to work under Linux.

    Thanks again, in advance, for whatever guidance you can give.

    Alex Kirk 

    


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