Hi all, I'm new to linux, but not to computer administration and programming. So I am not as completly usless as this question is gonna make me out to be : ) I just installed SuSE 8.0 pro. I realised this has been built with the 2.4.18 kernel. However, I have been told, in order for some of the functionality to work on my new laptop, I need to upgrade to 2.4.20. (I can't remember what it was, I have it wrote down at work, but thats besides the point, I want to understand it anyway.) I have tried to configure the new kernel, compile it and boot with it in so many different ways I lost count. Configuring and compiling the kernel is no problem, I just seem to be missing something after that. I have a new zImage, but can't seem to implement it. Maybe I am getting the kernel from the wrong place. I have been downloading it from kernel.org (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.20.tar.gz) Do SuSE have a special kernel I need to apply? Would I be better to just patch the original (although I would like to be able to build from scratch also. This is my goal) Can anyone please just give quick step by step points on how to do this. Thanks in advance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
Don't go with a kernel.org kernel unles you REALLY want to compile your own kernel. Use this site: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/RPM and download the appropriate kernel and source rpms. (That site is a fast mirror or SuSE's kernel developer, and these kernels awlays work fine.) Once installed your laptop will probably work fine as these kernels have all the appropriate acpi patches installed and acpi is activated automatically on those machines with a bios date after 1/2001. On Wednesday 08 January 2003 04:02 am, Gedi wrote:
Hi all,
I'm new to linux, but not to computer administration and programming. So I am not as completly usless as this question is gonna make me out to be : )
I just installed SuSE 8.0 pro. I realised this has been built with the 2.4.18 kernel. However, I have been told, in order for some of the functionality to work on my new laptop, I need to upgrade to 2.4.20. (I can't remember what it was, I have it wrote down at work, but thats besides the point, I want to understand it anyway.)
I have tried to configure the new kernel, compile it and boot with it in so many different ways I lost count.
Configuring and compiling the kernel is no problem, I just seem to be missing something after that. I have a new zImage, but can't seem to implement it.
Maybe I am getting the kernel from the wrong place. I have been downloading it from kernel.org (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.20.tar.gz)
Do SuSE have a special kernel I need to apply? Would I be better to just patch the original (although I would like to be able to build from scratch also. This is my goal)
Can anyone please just give quick step by step points on how to do this.
Thanks in advance
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