Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

[djbarney@djbarney.org]

I had the same problem. I had not built the kernel for about a decade. I
found the Debian kernel docs lacking. Linux Documentation Project does not
have a current guide. So I went back to the vanilla way of building and
started writing my own guide ...

http://stargate.djbarney.org/freelinking/Compiling%20the%20Linux%20Kernel

Barney Holmes

> I've not built LInux kernels since, well, 1999, when I ran RedHat
> linux (before EL existed).  I've compiled separate modules for the
> touchpad many times lately, but never a whole kernel.  And never on a
> Debian system.
>
> Now I've got a laptop with an Intel Centrino Ultimate 6300 wireless
> device and it has been very unstable when joining wireless networks. I
> complained about it in the intel wireless support page and today a
> technician answered me back with a kernel patch.
>
> http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2346
>
> This is a pretty serious request, I'm willing to try, but I wish
> somebody who has done this recently would share the experience.
>
> I found this:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage
>
> its about rebuilding kernels in the 2.6 era. Are there problems in
> translating this to 3.2?  I can't even get out of the starting gate.
> How to apt-get the kernel source?
>
> I'm running Debian testing.
>
> How to get the kernel source?
>
> $ apt-get source linux-3.2.0
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to find a source package for linux-3.2.0
>
> Seems like that ought to work. Or this:
>
> $ apt-get source linux-3.2.17
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to find a source package for linux-3.2.17
>
> I've tried every variation I can think of.
>
> Here's what I've got now:
> $ uname -r
> 3.2.0-2-amd64
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
> ii  linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64                    3.0.0-3
>              Linux 3.0.0 for 64-bit PCs
> ii  linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64                    3.2.17-1
>              Linux 3.2 for 64-bit PCs
> ii  linux-image-amd64                            3.2+44
>              Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
>
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