Missing settings in kernel compile, do I have to go thru everything again?

[svarreby]

I have just slapped in a 2.6 kernel ... all went OK. When I rebooted I kickstarted Mozilla ... nothing happens :=)

I have to include some 3Com drivers ... do I have to go thru every stage in the process (compile from start) or could I begin at:

make menuconfig

... and go from there?

[mdwatts]

You might be able to run the following command to only compile the required module.

Everything as root and booted to the new kernel.

gcc -o 3c59x.o -Wall -W -O2 -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/3c59x.c

Copy the resulting 3c59x.o to /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/net and run

depmod -ae

and then load the module

modprobe 3c59x

Note that I'm using 3c59x as a example.