On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:25:00 -0700, Jencha wrote:

> On Jul 1, 8:11Â*pm, Jencha <f...@vv.lv> wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 7:55Â*pm, General Schvantzkopf <schvantzk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:33:31 -0700, Jencha wrote:
>>
>> > Why don't you try something other than a Samsung?
>>
>> Well i tried some noname stuff, they didn't work on Ubuntu. But it did
>> work on Windows machine, from which i took it... Btw i see that a newer
>> kernel is available, but it won't install with sudo apt-get upgrade
>> command. So i`ll try to compile it.
>
> Owell, it's too complicated for mee to compile kernel. Did like
> howtoforge says but, well... it's just too complicated for me - won't
> boot up with my new kernel.
> Would be good if i could just apt-get upgrade... But i can't.

Building a kernel is easy, here is the step by step,

Untar the kernel

Copy the .config file from the source directory of the distro's kernel,
this will configure your kernel with all of the options that your distro
has chosen. On Redhat systems the .config file is in

/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64/.config

I don't know where they put in on a Debian family, but it must be there
somewhere.

After that do

make gconfig

This will bring up a GUI that will allow you to customize the kernel

Then build and install it as follows (you must be root to do this),

make -j 2 all
make modules_install
make install