my modest efforts have been directed to building the 2.2.16 kernel
which ships with rh7.0.  i did it from scratch after unpacking
kernel-source-2.2.16-22.i386.rpm from disk 1.

  make xconfig
  make dep
  make clean
  make zImage

and got the following at the last step:

  /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:142:1: warning:
      this is the location of the previous definition
  make[2]: *** [ksyms.o] Error 1
  make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
  make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
  make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2

repeated tries got the same thing.  did i forget something?

tia,
dan moylan

anthony j gabrielson wrote:
> which kernel?  I was playing with 2.4.0 and I found I had build problems
> if I tried to build it more than once.  If I removed the kernel source
> directory and started over from scratch it worked.  It has me thinking I
> missed something, but I have been building kernels with the same procedure
> for years know.  

>> the ethenet problem remains.  in an attempt to solve it, i'm
>> trying to recompile the kernel, but am currently getting
>> errors.  ho, hum.