How To Compile the new 2.6.16 kernel from kernel.org

[Melvil]

Did you compile the latest ndiswrapper from source ?

ndiswrapper? I'm sure it's not necessary for the ipw driver because it's a native linux driver and worked without ndiswrapper before.

[thasheep]

Damn, I thought the kernel update caused no problems, but my wireless interface is gone (ipw2200). It's compiled into the kernel, but this is the only message in dmesg:



sudo modprobe ipw2200 doesn't add anything to dmesg. Help!

You also need to have the ipw firmware. It can be downloaded from somewhere but it's also in linux-restricted. I find the easiest way is to create a link from a standard kernel's firmware package. If it worked with the 2.6.15-22-686 kernel then do the following...

cd /lib/firmware
sudo ln -s 2.6.15-22-686 `uname -r`

Make sure you use `uname -r` rather than 'uname -r'.

[godsfilth]

What make model laptop. Might have to do some digging in that direction. I know my old thinkpad took some kernel tweaking to work right

its an Acer Aspire 3000 (the AS3002LCi model)


edit:
well i just did a dist-upgrade to dapper since ive been meaning to and it appers to have fixed the touchpad issues while still useing my custom kernel

[RavenOfOdin]

OK, finally got the kernel patched and I think performance is even better now.

I took out a bunch of drivers and customized some features.

There are a few things which are really wrong, mostly with the APM and printing (and I may recompile the kernel to put these back in), but the general issues I can live with.

[neoaddict]

I recompiled the 2.6.16 kernel again with no driver support for the things I don't need. The original Ubuntu kernel is so slow compared to this one.

Any news on any new kernels?

[RavenOfOdin]

I've gotten the new iptables and patch-o-matic from netfilter.org as per the HOWTO (former from its snapshot directory - 1.3.5-20060518 - and latter from its main dir), but when I try to update the kernel source with them it spits out errors as follows:

Cannot apply - <n> missing files.

ERROR - <n> rejects out of <n> hunks.

ERROR - missing files.

These errors happen on the unpatched 2.6.16 kernel as well as the patched 2.6.16-16 one, using the source which is already unzipped into /usr/src/linux. They also happen with every individual netfilter patch, using "t" and "n" to skip.

Any idea what could be going wrong? Do I need to "make" the kernel source over again?

(EDIT: I don't need to download the source again, since the .tar file isn't corrupt as checked with md5sum, and I've unzipped it again into another directory and tried from there.)

PS: Is there a reason patch-o-matic was cited in post #177 and not patch-o-matic-ng as in the HOWTO? This process isn't working with either, and they're both the latest version.

[hikitsu4]

I got a question about the nvidia driver i got installed now with my k7 kernel, when i install the new kernel deb file do i need to install the nvidia driver at the same time again or?

[mucha]

I only get a black screen when I tries to start with the new kernel. The only I did was to change my processortype.

[neoaddict]

Does it show the login screen eventually?

[mucha]

No, nothing happens. Well I hear it's loading the kernel or something.