On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:25:21AM -0500, James wrote: > Hello, Your question is not laptop specific. Debian-user is a better mailing list.
> > This may seem strange, but I have need to test a old device > driver that a vendor says works with a 2.4.20 kernel. They > recomend Redhat, but, say that Debian should work. So, > on a Sarge installation, I tried: > > apt-get -t testing install kernel-sources-2.4.20 > > but the package had this error message reply: > "Couldn't find package kernel-sources-2.4.20" To see what kernel-source packages are available, use apt-cache search kernel-source --names-only If it is not necessary to compile the kernel yourself, you can perhaps install a kernel binary: apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4.20 --names-only If on your Debian GNU/Linux system apt is configured in such a way that the necessary kernel or source packages are not available, you can get Linux from http://www.kernel.org/ All kernel versions are available, both old and new. For example, in directory http://www.fi.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ is 2.4.20 kernel. -- Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen http://www.taleman.fi/ IT-alan asiantuntijapalvelut Porissa
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