Make command question

[chalop]

I have Red Hat 6.0 kernel 2.2.5 and I'm trying to reconfigure the kernel, so from /usr/src/linux-2.2.5 I try make config, make menuconfig and make xconfig but none of them work so I don't get the Kernel configuration window.
Under src I only have linux-2.2.5 and redhat. I read in a book that I should get a file called linux and type any of the mentioned commands. I also noticed that for Red Hat 6.2 kernel 2.2.14 I only get redhat under src. Any suggestions????
Thanks for your help.

 

[bachroxx]

It sounds like you dont have the kernel source on your system. There are a couple of ways to install it. One would be to use your install cd and rpm -Uvh kernel-source-VERSION.i386.rpm. The other way would be to get the version from kernel.org and untar it in the /usr/src directory. If you have installed it, what errors are you getting when you type "make config"? (I picked that because make menuconfig or make xconfig require other packages to work so I want to make sure that its not a dependency problem). If this post hasnt been helpful, can you cut and paste the error text into your reply?
Hope that this helps,
Brian
bking AT affcu DOT com

 

[Kudagai]

How do you want to use it? Normally it's better to get the source off of the distribution disks, as Red Hat patches it (most distributions do). An alternative is to get a more recently patched version from the Red Hat site (or a mirror). In my experience (well, it wasn't source, but ...) this version frequently breaks ppp, but I don't know why. Perhaps source wouldn't have this problem.