getting recent drivers/kernel with Debian

[Jason Shaw]

I'm not certain of the Debian way to do it, but since it's linux, you can go
on over to http://kernel.org and grab a newer version of the kernel, compile
it, install it, add it to your bootloader and reboot.

Since the latest versions are 2.6.3X and you are 2.2.26, you "should" be
able to use your same config file (always double check though) so that all
of the current modules and options you have should be included with the new
one.

I'd assume there's a more Debian way to do it though.
-jason

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Dave Mason <dmason-bqArmZWzea/GcjXNFnLQ/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I have Debian 5.0.6 on Linux kernel 2.6.26-2-686.  I would like to get the
> newer drivers without moving to an unstable versoin
>
> Is there a way to do that easily?  (That being one of the main putative
> attractions of Debian after all.)
>
> Thanks  ../Dace
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