Hi Paul, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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 know two ways to do it. One is to build from the official Debian packaging, as described at <http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html>. That page is pretty thorough, so I'll let it cover that itself. Another way is to build the kernel from kernel.org, like so: 0. prerequisites apt-get install build-essential ketchup 1. get the kernel mkdir linux cd linux ketchup 3-rc 2. configure and test cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config; # current configuration # optional: disable debugging symbols for a smaller build tree. # This is almost always a good choice, unless you use systemtap # or you use perf to profile the kernel. scripts/config --disable DEBUG_INFO # optional: minimize configuration by only including currently # loaded modules. Most modules that are not loaded are drivers # for hardware you don't have. Make sure your wireless driver # is loaded if you've unloaded it. make localmodconfig make deb-pkg; # optionally with -j<num> for parallel build dpkg -i ../<name of package>; # as root reboot ... test test test ... Hopefully it reproduces the bug. So: 3. try the patch cd linux patch -p1 </path/to/the/patch make deb-pkg; # maybe with -j2 dpkg -i ../<name of package>; # as root reboot ... test test test ... Thanks for your work, and hope that helps, Jonathan -- 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/20120531072501.GA16461@burratino
