kernel-source package

Agorex · 10-10-2006, 12:12 PM

I am using Debian Etch on an ACER laptop and my audio card (Realtek ALC883) doesn`t work. I found at http//ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202555&page=5 a short how-to. The problem is when I try to ./configure the alsa-driver, it says:

The file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h does not exist.
Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution
or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel
sources (default is /usr/src/linux).

Now I must install kernel-source-2.6.17-2-686 package, but I don`t know from where I can get it. Any ideas?

pljvaldez · 10-10-2006, 01:11 PM

aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` for just the headers (which is normally all you need).

If you need the full source, aptitude install linux-source-2.6.17. After you untar the source in /usr/src, you'll have to ln -s /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17 /usr/src/linux. then you need to cp /boot/config-2.6.17-2-686 /usr/src/linux/.config. Then cd /usr/src/linux and make oldconfig. Basically, what this will do is install the kernel source, create a symlink from /usr/src/linux to the kernel source, and then copy the configuration of your running kernel to the kernel tree.

Like I said, I would try just installing the headers first. That usually works.