So anyway, it was like, 15:19 CET Dec 05 2003, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
walt was all like, "Dude,
> John Gilger <bjgilger@cox.net> writes:

>> I might be dense, but am I correct in understanding that I have to
>> re-compile my kernel to compile the missing usb printer module?
>
> It depends on what you may have done after compiling the first time.
> If you did a 'make clean' or 'make mrproper' or deleted the sources
> then you would need to start over.
>
> If you just left everything as it was, then you could probably
> just do 'make menuconfig' and 'make dep' and 'make modules' and
> 'make modules_install'. You could certainly give it a try and if it
> doesn't work then you haven't lost very much.

Take note that "make modules_install" might clean out some things you
expect to find in /lib/modules/*, like alsa. If possible, copy the new
module(s) manually, do a 'depmod -a' and hope for the best instead.

Or just re-emerge stuff that lives in /lib/modules after running make.
To find candidates, 'epm -qf /lib/modules/*'.

hth.

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