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upgrade to new stable kernel 3.6.1

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• Started 11 years ago by linux_noob
• Latest reply from abilinx
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   linux_noob
   

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   Hey guys,

   i would like to upgrade the kernel of my Slitaz 4.0 install for better hardware support.
   i'm not much a fan of compiling drivers and modules, since i'm not a linux expert on those things.

   Is there an understandable tutorial out there in the forum? I didn't found it so far...
   Or should i keep my hands off it? :-)

   Thankx for any helpful reply!

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   lobotazmania
   

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   hi, you can follow this guide http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:kernel, and i think you just to download the correct version kernel. gretings to you.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   I would say good luck with that. It's a little more complicated than that guide points out. Would probably be a better idea to switch to SliTaz Cooking.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   linux_noob
   

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   Hi lobotazmania, and hey Trixar,
   i thought, that it couldn't be so easy. Damn :-)

   I can't find out which kernel version the cooking iso has?

   By the way, i decided to use slitaz for a new nfs/samba/ftp server.

   So far!
   the linux_noob

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   http://pkgs.slitaz.org/search.sh?receipt=linux&version=cooking

   PACKAGE="linux"
   VERSION="3.2.14"

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   gap
   

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   Let me see if I can't update the kernel on my own box today. If I can I'll explain here how to do it. I'm sure it's more than the guide says and I'm sure it's not easy. It's linux :)

   But it will be fun. Going slow will ensure I don't fry my system.

   Thanks for the luck, Trixar. I'm sure I'll need it.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   linux_noob
   

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   Ahh, sounds promising :-)

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   gap
   

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   Ah I've made no promises, but let me go cut my grass and I'll come back in and give it a go. If anyone wants to give advice in the next hour so I don't fry my system please do because I'm an expert at that :D

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   gap
   

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   Progress so far: I've attempted to download the kernel and even finding the specific version in cooking is hard to do. If someone could direct me to a package I could download it so I can give it a go.

   I've followed the guide up til

   tazpkg get-install linux-source

   but it downloads

   linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2

   from kernel.org

   so that needs to be updated if we are going to run off of the 3.2.14 kernel, but admittedly I don't know how to do that, and that's not why I'm here, and am in no way suggesting anyone needs to hop on that project by any means.

   Taking a break and I'll get back to it ASAP

   Posted 11 years ago #
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    abilinx
    

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    Hi

    Last year, I did a work like this with Tiny Core Linux (a light-weight distro). I patched a newer version of kernel (with rt-preemet, a real-time patch for kernel) and make it and replace it successfully. It's a little hard but is possible, and yes, amazing.

    These are steps I suggest:
    - Download the newer version of kernel.
    - Find the configuration of current kernel of SliTax 4.0 and cofig the newer version according to it (important).
    - Make the kernel, install it, the header files and kernel modules.

    each of the steps explained in multiple websites and can be done with a bit of try-error.

    Good Luck!

    Posted 10 years ago #

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