Re: kernel update

["S.D.A." <dallan@rogers.com>]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:54:34AM -0700 or thereabouts, Luis Finotti wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> It seems that my kernel is a rather old version:
> ---------------------
> % uname -a
> Linux debian 2.4.3 #2 Sat Mar 31 11:29:19 CST 2001
> i686 unknown
> ---------------------
> 
> It seems that the newer versions are 2.4.16 or later. 
> I thought "apt-get update/upgrade" would upgrade the
> kernel, but it seems that that's not the case.  (I
> don't have any updates there.)
> 
> So, how does one update the kernel.  Although my
> computer is running fine, I wanted to install the alsa
> drivers, and I think I'd need something like
> "alsa-modules-2.4.16-386" or "kernel-headers-2.4.16". 
> (I can't find "kernel-headers-2.4.3".)

You may wish to view the following thread from yesterday. I upgraded from the
2.2.x kernel to 2.4.25-1-386. S.Keeling helped out immensely. Just follow the
instructions in that thread;

<http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/05/msg03171.html>

HTH
-- 
Steve
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