Kost dungeon

As lot of people asked me how I managed to compile kernel modules for Xandros default distribution on ASUS EEE, here's explanation.

First, I copied all files (except /proc, /sys, ...) from ASUS EEE to my laptop. I used tar and netcat for that. After that, I chrooted that ASUS EEE file structure (chroot . bash).

Now, i've done lot of apt-gets to have development enviroment ready (gcc, libc-dev, etc...). For kernel part, I downloaded vanilla kernel source (same version as ASUS EEE) from kernel.org (direct link). In order to make kernel as match as close to original one, I downloaded unionfs (direct link) and applied patch to vanilla tree.

It's good feature that ASUS engineers left the kernel .config file in /boot, so I could use original .config file (it's full pathname is /boot/config-2.6.21.4-eeepc). Just copied that config file to source tree as .config and made:
make oldconfig && make prepare

So, now I have full enviroment ready and I just compile any additional extra module I need. This way you can compile the kernel (not just modules). But it would lack full ASUS EEE hardware support. I used this method to compile kernel modules (like eee.ko).

In the meantime, ASUS released their kernel source (or I just realized that) and you can download it here (choose EEEPC and find it under Source code category).
You need to unrar the downloaded file and install it using dpkg (dpkg -i linux-source-2.6.21.4-eeepc.deb). The linux source is installed in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.21.4-eeepc.tar.bz2. Untar it, compile it and have fun! :)

It's good, now you have two options: vanilla kernel or original EEE kernel.

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