Gentoo problem compiling modules

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:52:17 -0500
Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:04:41 -0400
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> > Did you use makeconfig to define whatever it takes to make the
> > module compile?
> > 
> > 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?
> > > 
> > > This is making it hard for me to print!
> > > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> What it took was
> make config
> make dep
> make modules
> 
> Is there a file I could edit instead of running make config? It has
> *way* too many questions!
> 

Read my previous post a little more carefully, but then maybe I was too
cryptic.  make menuconfig allows you to reload a config that you have
saved, then make a few changes, then save your changes under your
preferred name, then save the .config for make dep ...

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