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 -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAErODj80yuiWQZkk8h=zrc43wkuithmhkyc29gwhfeb-mdm...@mail.gmail.com
