Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:53:49PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote:
> I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401.  I have the
> source but it needs the kernel source.  I installed from disk 5 which
> means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4.  I tried apt-getting
> kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist.
> 
> Without networking how do I get it.  Or if it is under a different
> name what is it?

See if apt-cache knows about it, e.g.,

    $ apt-cache search kernel | grep 2.4.18-bf2.4

Look on your set of cds, e.g.,

    $ find /cdrom -name 2.4.18-bf2.4

Ask a friend to let you use their machine with networking and google
for it.

Ken

-- 
Ken Irving, Research Analyst, fnkci@uaf.edu, 907-474-6152
Water and Environmental Research Center
Institute of Northern Engineering
University of Alaska, Fairbanks