does anyone know if slackware is going to make the new kernel available?

What do you mean make the new kernel available? I have 2.4.22 running flawlessly on my Slackware machine.

i meant in slackware pkg (.tgz),

how do you install it? i mean in slackware there is kernel-headers, kernel-something and kernel-something,
in kernel.org is just one file, i'm confused

At the top of this forum you should find a link or thread discussing how to install a kernel for Slackware specific systems. Its very easy to follow. I would suggest following that to get the latest kernel installed. No need to wait around for someone to create it as a Slack source (tgz).

Regards.

but thats for recompiling a kernel and not for removing the old one and installing a new one

Hi there one

Let me try to clear up a bit of confusion for you

You have the 2.4.21 kernel, NOT very old, and with lots of support. Reasons to upgrade your kernel would be things like Hardware not working (correctly), bugs, security holes, things like that. To upgrade something (especially a KERNEL) when it's working properly is sometimes suicide, so be careful.

Now, if you are having problems as described above, feel free to upgrade your kernel. To do that, you will want to grab the latest STABLE version from www.kernel.org and compile it. Not recompile, because this would indeed be the first time, so no 're' anything is being done

Follow the how-to above, and be sure to test it out and don't overwrite your current working kernel in the process.

Removing an old one and installing a new one is not really a great idea because of the above mentioned problems, and because you have 1 working kernel, that you know works, but you aren't sure if the new one will or not on your setup. Keep the old one until you've thoroughly tested out a new one.

Recompiling a kernel or compiling one for the first time for an 'update' is definitely recommended rather than "installpkg/upgradepkg" the new kernel. You'll get the benefit of seeing what is actually in a kernel, the speed you get from compiling your own, and of course the knowledge gained from compiling a kernel.

Anyone can 'upgradepkg package-version.tgz' but it takes a good reader and some patience to actually compile your first kernel

Cool

ermm MasterC, the stock kernel shipped with Slack 9 is 2.4.20...

one, kernel compiling is not hard, if you know your hardware and specific features that you need (or want), then it shouldn't be too difficult.

DaOne's thread is informative, and you should give it a try if you insist on having the latest kernel

Azmeen i upgraded it to 2.4.21 using the slackware pkg (upgradepkg)

i read daone posts and i'm compiling a new kernel from source but had a problem just now when running the make bzimage command

bash-2.05b# make bzimage
make: *** No rule to make target `bzimage'. Stop.

It's a capital I:
make bzImage

Cool

oops! thanks MasterC

I don't see how that would really matter, or contridict anything I wrote? If you mean to say:

Constitutes a 'remcompile' because 2.4.21 is not the stock kernel in 9, well still he'd be compiling his first 2.4.22 kernel, still no recompiling (for the play on words anyway ).

But thanks for the info, I actually didn't know what the stock kernel was that shipped with 9.0 because Slack decided to disclude the source from the install CD

Cool

You're welcome It's the little things that end up killing us sometimes...

Cool

another question, when i compile my new kernel and want to remove it to continue with the old one, i just have to erase the /usr/src/linux directory of the new kernel?

Well, personally I do it the recommended way... ie. untar the kernel, and it will uncompress in linux-2.4.xx, I just create a linux symlink to the one I'm using/going to use... ie.:

cd /usr/src
ln -s linux-2.4.22 linux