[gentoo-dev] ieee1394 Setup Kernel

[C. David Wilde]

I have recently inherited a Sony Vaio PCG R505-DSP super slim laptop with a 
docking station.  The docing station contains the cdrom and floppy drives, I 
am able to access the floppy fine, but not the cdrom due to the fact that it 
is a firewire drive.

I tried creating the necessary kernel modules on my Gentoo desktop and loading 
them from a floppy on the laptop, but I get a bunch of unresolved symbols 
trying to load them, so I am assuming that the 1.2 ISO version of the 2.4.19 
kernel does not have ieee1394 support enabled.  My plan now is to build a new 
kernel with the appropriate support and replace the kernel on the ISO.

I am assuming that I can just replace kernel with the newly created bzImage, 
but I'm not sure where to place the modules, or if I should just compile them 
directly into the kernel?  Does anyone have any suggestions ideas as to how I 
should proceed?  Any help is greatly appreciated, and I will be happy to 
publish all of my results getting Gentoo running on this bad boy ;)

TIA, Dave Wilde