Re: r8187se panic

[James Womack <james.c.womack@gmail.com>]

On 13/11/10 20:02, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 11/13/2010 01:27 PM, James Womack wrote:
>> If building a kernel is as simple as building other programs from source
>> (i.e. configure, make, make install), I could do that. I'm using Debian
>> at the moment. Presumably I'd need a compiler of some kind, which I
>> could obtain from the repos. I am not sure how one would apply patches
>> to the kernel, however. Would I be able to compile a modified kernel and
>> add this to grub whilst retaining the ability to boot in the unmodified
>> kernel?
>
> It is similar to the process used with other programs. My distro is openSUSE and
> the steps are to get the kernel source, the kernel development package, and the
> patch utility using YaST. Other distros use emerge, apt-get, or similar
> utilities. The easiest way to configure the kernel is to match the current one
> using the compressed version in /proc/config.gz. You should end up with an
> additional kernel in the GRUB menu that can be selected at boot time.
>
> Larry
>
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Okay, I've downloaded the necessary tools and extracted the kernel 
source. I have a tutorial on how to patch and build the kernel. Where 
should I apply your patches?

James