installing kernel-source
in order to install drivers for my graphics and modem, ive read i need to install the kernel-source, ive searched and followed few different guides using apt-get install kernel-source 2.4.18
But the drivers (the modem in this case) is telling me to install the kernel-source. i thort id sorted it when i found out i had to tar xvfj kernel-source-2.4.18 and then ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 /usr/src/linux but afterwards, i still got the same error. is my kernel-source installed or not? if not what do i need to do? thanks. |
No, you don't have your kernel installed yet. You only untarred the source and created a symlink to its directory. That's the beginning of it, though. Look at those links who were provided to me by someone willing to help: Link1 and link2 and link3. They helped me a lot.
Yet, you might want to use the 2.6.10 kernel, the latest production version. The 2.4 is quite old . You can get the latest sources from www.kernel.org. EDIT: you told us you untarred the source, but where? |
If there's a file in /usr/src/linux pointing to kernel-source-2.4.18 then it should work. If there are others besides the link to kernel-source-2.4.18 you need to remove them. Do you see kernel-source-2.4.18 in /usr/src? If so it's installed. If your trying to install the Nvidia drivers you might need to use the advanced option and physically point it to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18. You can read the directions for the Nvidia drivers in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.
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Yes upgrading your kernel is highly recommended. If you cant use the 2.6 kernel on your distro at least upgrade to 2.4.28.
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Thanks for the links, im printing them right now ;)
I untarred the source into /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 Im using the debian 3.0r4 DVD and i think this is the newest kernel on it. |
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