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[mantel@xxxxxxx (Hubert Mantel)]

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Howard Arons wrote:

> On Aug 08, 1998, Howard Arons wrote:
> > 
> > I have compiled a "customized" 2.0.33 kernel for myself [...]
> 
> Two more questions about my "new" kernel.
> 
> Q1. There has apparently been no info included in the zImage about _who_
> compiled this kernel. Thus, 'uname -a' gives the following:
> "Linux BeagleDog 2.0.33 #1 Fri Aug 7 09:05:28 EDT 1998 i486 unknown"
> What should I have done to have such info included next time? I suppose 
> there's something to edit in /usr/src/linux/Makefile.

This info only is printed on bootup. Use "dmesg" to see it.

> Q2. The compile gave an _un_compressed kernel /usr/src/linux/vmlinux as 
> well as the zImage. I can see no reason to keep the vmlinux file now; 
> what am I missing?

It's an intermediate file (similar to the .o files laying around). You can
delete it if you want.

> > [...] when I start pppd the message "localhost syslog: IPX support 
> > is not present in the kernel".
> 
> Sincere thanks to Stefan Troeger for the '-ipx-protocol' option for pppd. 
> Problem solved.
> 
> Re Hubert Mantel's suggestion to 'fix ifconfig' as a solution to the 
> IPX problem, sorry Hubert, but as far as I can tell there is no boot 
> action that sets an ipx device with ifconfig. Or maybe I just haven't
> the faintest idea of what you meant :-)

Sorry, I was completely wrong here. I mixed it with another problem. Sorry
for the confusion...

> Howard Arons
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