getting recent drivers/kernel with Debian

[Christopher Browne]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Jason Shaw <grazer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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 on over to http://kernel.org and grab a newer version of the kernel, compile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.

Yeah, you can readily turn your favorite kernel into a Debian package.

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.en.html

So...
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Users who wish to (or must) build a custom kernel are encouraged to
download the package kernel-package. This package contains the script
to build the kernel package, and provides the capability to create a
Debian linux-image-version package just by running the command

     make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
in the top-level kernel source directory. Help is available by
executing the command

     make-kpkg --help
and through the manual page make-kpkg(1).

Users must separately download the source code for the most recent
kernel (or the kernel of their choice) from their favorite Linux
archive site, unless a linux-source-version package is available
(where version stands for the kernel version).

Detailed instructions for using the kernel-package package are given
in the file /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz.
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