Kernel Source

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sun Oct 10 20:36:53 UTC 2004


On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:46:03PM +0200, "Mariano F.co Bení­tez Mulet" wrote:

> hacked for Medion as well) that are suitable and would fix  my problems. 
> (http://home.conceptsfa.nl/~revdmeer/md40100/#wirelesslan)
> But, of course, for compiling and intalling these drivers I need the 
> kernel-source which is:
> "cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.8.1-2-386 (buildd at mcmurdo) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 
> 1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5)) #1 Sat Sep 18 09:49:53 BST 2004"
> I've looked around and I haven't found it.

If you need to compile a module, you don't need the complete kernel source,
just the headers:

sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`

-- 
 - mdz




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