Gentoo problem compiling modules

[Alan Jackson]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:50:37 -0700
Condon Thomas A KPWA <tcondon at kpt.nuwc.navy.mil> wrote:

> Alan Jackson wrote:
> > I installed Gentoo a week ago, and it has mostly been quite smooth.
> > 
> > However.... some, but not all, of my modules missed getting compiled.
> > In particular, usb/printer doesn't seem to want to compile. I ran
> > make modules_install
> > and it didn't help. I get no errors, I just don't get a
> > printer.o file created. Any suggestions?
> 
> Did you run "make modules" first?
> 

Yes.

I'm closer to the problem, though. For some reason, in my 
/etc/kernels/default_config
the usb printer is disabled. I tried editing this file and
recompiling, but that doesn't do it. What command does
gentoo expect for me to update whatever file knows which
modules to compile?


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