how are you kids compiling kernels these days?
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)
pj
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