--- Marco Franzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi, > > > Would it be possible that the 2.4 kernel has dropped support for a > > chipset that worked in in the 2.2 kernel? Should I file a bug report? > > Digging on kernel.org I found that this is likely a bug, which was > fixed in the official kernel between 2.4.21pre1 and pre2. So I want > to try 2.4.21 on my stable system. > > There is a debian image for 2.4.21 in testing, but not in stable. In > addition, the kernel image in testing (but not the source) requires > newer versions of modutils and initrd-tools than are available in > stable. >
2.4.21 runs just great on Woody. > If I don't want to destabilise my stable system by mixing central > packages, my best bet seems to be to fetch kernel-package and build > the kernel-source-2.4.21 from testing on stable. > What I did was just use wget to download the .deb package for the latest 2.4.21 source. Then I just unpacked it and copied the .tar.gz into /usr/src. I used make-kpkg to build it and viola. Kernel with Debian patches, and everything is great. > Would I use kernel-package from stable for that and would that be able > to build the kernel from testing? > It will work fine from stable. > Are modutils and initrd-tools likely to be an issue? > Nope. > Thanks a lot, > Marco > -Roberto ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
