linux-kbuild-2.6.24

radiodee1 · 01-24-2008, 12:12 PM

I recently downloaded linux-image-2.6.24-rc8, because I needed to try to get my wireless (b43) to work better. It does work better now so I want to keep the kernel, but I cannot install linux-headers-2.6.24-rc8 without linux-kbuild-2.6.24. The big problem is that I cannot find linux-kbuild-2.6.24 at all. I can find this file 'linux-kbuild-2.6_2.6.24~rc5.orig.tar.gz' but it's not a '.deb' file, so I don't know what to do with it. (Also it's not 'rc8' I don't know if that matters.) I downloaded it and looked at it but it doesn't make much sense to me.

I don't expect to be able to use apt or dpkg, so does anybody have a good page on building linux-kbuild? Does it make an entry in the apt database on my computer? If I try to install it, will linux-headers-2.6.24 even install afterwards? Thanks in advance.

Dutch Master · 01-25-2008, 07:29 AM

I found that 2.6.24 is available as stable kernel today. I suggest to get the full source and build from scratch. That way, you'll automatically get the headers too. From the commandline as root:

Code:

aptitude install build-essential less nano
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2
mkdir ~/kernel
cp linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2 ~/kernel/linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2
cd ~/kernel/
tar -xjf linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2

And away you go: config the kernel, make & install the image and the modules, build a matching RAM disk, update Grub/Lilo and reboot

PS: I know you've done kernelbuilds in the past but the elaboration is for relative new kernelbuilders

radiodee1 · 01-26-2008, 11:18 AM

Did I do something wrong? I downloaded the debian source file from experimental and installed it, using dpkg. Then I went to /usr/src/ and unpacked the .tar.bz2 file. I cd'd into the new directory. Then I copied the .config file from the /boot directory and ran 'make menuconfig' to see that everything was as it should be. Then (as root) I ran 'make-kpkg clean' and this command:

Code:

make-kpkg --initrd --append_to_version=-686dl1 kernel-image kernel-headers

Then I waited for the headers and kernel packages to be made. I installed them with dpkg, and now my system boots up into this new kernel, linux-image-2.6.24-rc8-686dl1, BUT I cannot build modules against the new kernel, or at least I've had terrible success at it so far. I know my account blurs over a few steps, but am I missing something? Is there something wrong with my headers? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance...

radiodee1 · 01-26-2008, 05:11 PM

Well, just to report back, I re-built the kernel and header files and re-installed them and this time they worked. I was able to compile several modules. Thanks Dutch Master and anyone who was reading this thread.

Dutch Master · 01-28-2008, 11:41 PM

Good, glad you got it working. Just curious though, why did you stick with an rc version (and even the last one before becoming declared stable) of a kernel that's already marked 'stable' by the kernel dev's?

radiodee1 · 01-29-2008, 04:34 AM

I wanted to use the debian source package, and as of yesterday that was the only one I could find. It's not in experimental now. What are the benefits of using the one from Kernel.org over the debian one?

Junior Hacker · 01-29-2008, 06:55 AM

I have this section in my /etc/apt/sources list that I uncomment when installing a Debian kernel from unstable to make sure to get all dependencies also for a truly Debian patched kernel.

Code:

##########################
##### Kernel Builder #####
##########################
#gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 29F335B3
#gpg --armor --export 29F335B3 | apt-key add -
#deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/ trunk main

By uncommenting that third line and uncommenting your unstable mirror in /etc/apt/sources list and do an "apt-get update" you'll be able to install linux-image-2.6.24-rc8, linux-kbuild-2.6.24, linux-headers-2.6.24-rc8 with whatever method you choose like apt, aptitude or synaptic and have all the latest Debian patches.

radiodee1 · 01-30-2008, 05:34 AM

Junior Hacker, I actually did that, but I couldn't get it to work. As of 1/28 or 1/29 there was no 'linux-kbuild-2.6.24' available, though. There is one now, but I've already built the kernel myself, so I'm not so worried about it. I'll try the kernel-archive thing again some other time.