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Latest Kernel Build 2.6.17

While building the latest kernel source 2.6.17 on my laptop under debian I was getting the error “make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1″. I fixed this issue by install ibc6-dev and the libncurses5-dev packages. For some reason I remeber it actually complaining about ncurses before when it didnt have these installed. It is not very clear now when this is missing, so I thought this might help out some people.

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  1. hurt says

    Another thing I noticed…

    Adding the ipw2200 module into the kernel would stop it from loading the firmware needed. I switched this over to just using modules for the ipw2200 and it started up with no issues.



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