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Re: kernel 2.6.11 and tg3 broadcom



On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 16:46 +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:
> Hi,
> i've read here http://lists.debian.org/debian-kern...3/msg00412.html
> that the Debian team has decided to wipe out the Broadcom tg3 module
> from the 2.6.11 and following releases. I've a laptop which uses this
> card to connect to a LAN. Since i must work in a LAN the problem
> arises.
> 
> Is there any possibility to add the modules in a separate way inside
> the kernel? I've read about non-free kernel sources, where can i find
> them?

Install the "kernel-package" package (and it's dependencies :-) and pull
the source to a standard Linux kernel from a mirror, such as:

 http://www.it.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6

Untar this into an appropriate directory, cd into that, use "make
menuconfig" to configure your kernel and "make-kpkg kernel_image" to
build a Debian package of it.

There's lots of documentation around to take you through this process,
not least in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/ once you've installed that.

Regards,
					Andrew McMillan.

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