From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 6 15: 8:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.new.rr.com (mail2.rdc-detw.rr.com [24.30.0.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F34637B42C for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwhitcomb1@new.rr.com) Received: from ike98 ([66.41.70.60]) by mail2.new.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:18:18 -0400 Message-ID: <000c01c0bed5$b77e67c0$3c462942@new.rr.com> From: "Michael J Whitcomb MCP" To: Subject: Cannot Compile Kernel Sources- newbie again! LOW PRIORITY killing time while new image is fetched . . . Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:11:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello and Thank You I cannot compile GENERIC. I tried MYKERNEL and it failed so then I thought lets just try GENERIC. The machine stops responding - completely - at various spots in the compilation stage. Make depend finishes fine. It is a stable machine and I have checked all the hardware. Question 1.) I am using an ISO-Image of 4.2.1 that I fetched in January - February. The CD did not boot though the machine supports it. I installed using floppies. Was there a problem with the sources on 4.2 STABLE iso image back then or did I grab a wrong image? Ah yeah probably? Question 2. and 2.5) The Teletronics NIC has object files twl_wl24.o etc . . . I modded /sys/conf/files with: /dev/twl/twl_wl24.o optional twl etc. . . I put the files in /sys/dev/twl is this correct? When compiling (sort of ;-) I noticed it said cp for the files as if they were being copied into the kernel. instead of cc. Is this right? I forgot! Question 3.) What are the "best" optimizations for make.conf (and which one - I have 4 make.conf files) for a user who is NOT EVER going to debug but just wants a fast but safe compilation because he is usually quite lucky. Question 5.) Is there BSD certifications? Where can I get them? Machine Specifics: AMD K6-233MMX with 64 MB RAM a Fireport 40 SCSI controller and an IBM 4.55 UW SCSI HDD. ATAPI CD-ROM and Floppy, Realtek 10mb PCI Adapter, Sound Blaster AWE32. Installed. Side note: I also HAD to edit the /etc/defaults/rc.conf in order to get DHCPCLIENT to work it ignored my /etc/rc.conf. I am looking into this . . . A bunch of rambling stuff you can DEFINITELY SKIP: I will add (after successfully configuring MYKERNEL) a Teletronics PCI wireless NIC (I pulled my modem). I haven' t compiled a FreeBSD kernel since this machine ran 3.x in Dec 1999. It has worked PERFECTLY since. It was "only" a router running ppp-nat inet and squid so I blew away my old setup and installed a new release clean . . . oops! My first kernel build was Slackware Linux release 1 (Linux .9 kernel) they forgot to compile in a parallel port! I then built a couple UnixWare 1.0 and several 1.1 boxes then when Frankenthal sold UnixWare I became an MCP! AAAGGGHHH . . . So a couple of years ago I started tinkering with Linux again but the whole IBM-Novell-Redhat thing and Mandrake and Turbo and Corel and FooBar HEY whatever happened to YGGDRASIL? so I bought the 3.? - I can't remember cuz someone stole my stuff - distribution form cdrom.com and well it all went so well I kind of forgot about it! I feel like a NEWBIE and thusly I kind of am. Here is the good news though I would like to help. I am an EXCELLENT proof reader and will have a website kind of like FreeBSD Diary? Question 4.) I don't know if that is cool or not? I was a runner up MVP for assisting Microsoft on the Terminal Server Board except they didn't like some of my comments about webck so . . . can you tell I spent the whole night on this? I started this email at 89MB I am now on 519MB with roadbarfer . . . OK sorry I told you you could skip this . . .HOWEVER, I would appreciate any answer to the above 3 questions. Michael J. Whitcomb MCP (I puked in the 3.51 track on my electives now I only have Windows 2000 Networking ;-) Yeah Baby . . .COIN PS I am really NEVER this talkative but its Friday and I was UP all night! "What we do in life is echoed in eternity." Maximus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message