Arrgh! Nothing seems to work! I have been trying to get NetBSD onto my new
laptop and have encountered problem after problem (Rant below).

I'm trying to rebuild the kernel and the problem I am having now is that I
cannot do a 'make depend'. I installed 1.5.2 off of the i386 boot CD with
everything. I copy in the -current sources and try to rebuild the kernel
(because my network adapter is not working and some have suggested using
-current) and I am met with an error.

param.c:75: config_file.h: No such file or directory

I simply copied GENERIC into MYKERNEL, did 'config MYKERNEL', went to the
compile/MYKERNEL directory and did 'make depend'. Why was this file not
generated? Did I do anything wrong?

I tried creating a blank file, config_file.h in the same folder as param.c
(because it is #include"config_file.h") but that still did not work. Should
it be elsewhere? 

I also get a bunch of warnings about redefines, but I can deal with those
later.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? Are there differences between
1.5.2 and -current that would cause this problem?


<RANT>
I am rebuilding the kernel because my network does not work which I needed
to download the latest X server so that I could run X on my notebook. Every
step of the way, this thing seems to break down. Shouldn't GENERIC run on
just about any i386 platform?
</RANT>



Brian Rose 
Brian dot Rose at icn dot siemens dot com 
407-942-6934 
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