Tag Archives: Kernel

Reliance NetConnect on Ubuntu 9.04

Today one of my friend came to me asking for help in connecting to internet with his Reliance Netconnect USB Modem. As I had done this before for BSNL EVDO connections, I knew the steps to follow. But when I tried to load the usbserial module on Ubuntu using modprobe command, I got this sree@jaunty$ sudo [...]
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Building RPM Kernel Packages

Extract and customize the kernel 1. Log in as root, extract the kernel sources: tar jxf linux-.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src 2. Customize the kernel with make menuconfig, make xconfig, etc… Create two copies of the .config file and save them in /usr/src/linux<version>-: .config: this copy has to provide the configuration for the single processor kernel .config_smp: this copy has to provide [...]
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My LUG Articles

I sent two articles for the LUG-cochin and they are published in the LUG website. Here are the links. 1. Custom Kernel Compilation, the Ubuntu way. 2. Making Custom Ubuntu Live CD’s. Hope these articles may help you. var fbShare = {url: 'http://semk.in/2008/08/my-lug-articles/',size:'small'}
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