[Sussex] Printers and Gentoo (again)

Iain Stevenson iain at iainstevenson.com
Mon Nov 29 13:44:15 UTC 2004



--On Monday, November 29, 2004 1:34 pm +0000 "John D." 
<big-john at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 08:18 +0000, Stephen Williams wrote:
>
> The only thing that I can think of, that may have made any difference,
> is upgrading my kernel about 4 or 5 days ago, and as I use genkernel
> because I don't know enough about this hardware (well more of a case
> that make menuconfig throws up so many unknown parameters, I wouldn't
> really know what to enable, build in, set as module or leave out!) and
> I'm wondering if there is some way that I could have missed a stage of
> something ? Though I don't see how I could have, I just follow the
> instructions and the post daft questions if theres something that's not
> proceeding as per the instructions.

Just copy the ".config" file from the old kernel source directory to the 
new and do "make oldconfig" - then you'll only get bothered with questions 
relating to the things that have changed in the kernel source.

  Iain
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