Kernel Complie time?????

[greenwom]

While exciting night, working on installing my wireless card (a much needed fix)

In my install I've gotten to the compile portion and dang

how long does the
make modules command take, it's been forever!@#$?

I'm just a stupid newbee :)

[TravisNewman]

How long has it been?

To roughly quote a linux book I have somewhere:
once you've issued this command, take a coffee break. Take two coffee breaks for that matter. Well, while you're at it, go out for a nice dinner and stay after the meal and chat for a while :)

Yes, it does take a while.

[greenwom]

I snuck over to my old man's house to plug in to his network so I can get my wireless crap working at my place (my tenant has a wireless network :) and I comp him on the rent for use )

Told the wife I'd be back in 30-40 minutes and I think I'm in the dog house.... [-X

Ontop of that I'm crossing my fingers hopping the wiki Howto works :)

but at least I figured a few (minor) things out on my own :mrgreen:

As the lines fly by are there any signs that I'm getting close to done

[poofyhairguy]

how long does the
make modules command take, it's been forever!@#$?


On my celeron 400 it takes over 4 hours. On my P4 2.66GHZ it takes a bit under an hour.

[az]

I read your post before going to bed. I am up now.

Is it done?

[seven]

On my P4 2.60 it takes a hour +-

[somuchfortheafter]

took about 45mins on my pentium m 1.6ghz

[greenwom]

Well my Sony Vaio 256 mb RAM and AMD athlon processor it took about 2 hours.

Odd thing about my processor in windows unber settings it shows as a Athlon 1Ghz and when I run test and check it; it's a 500?

I've spent the last three days brushing up on processors and hardware.
it's been 8 years since I've dug into a home machine and there's alot of cobb-webs

I started another post about building a machine.....
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=29430

Doing the math I can't tell just yet what's the most cost effective, some companies like dell throw out some deals...?

[jerome bettis]

damn you guys must have a lot of modules still in there. my 1.7ghz pentium m w/ 512 ram compiles it in less than 15 minutes. i've probably built it about 20 times, each time removing more and more stuff i don't need.

[RTN]

it really depends on your kernel configuration.
I try to use the kernel that ships with the distro as long as I am not forced to compile my on. Once I will compile my own I will try to throw out everything I don't need.

SCSI and RAID and a bunch of network cards... for example.

I got Pentium-M 1.3G (The Centrino how they call it)

~30minutes to do make modules.


RTN