kernel-headers

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:10:41PM -0700, Darren Critchley wrote:

> Before I post this to bugzilla, I thought I would enquire first about it.

This is answered in the FAQ.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/compile-kernel-module

> I am currently running the 2.6.8.1-686 Kernel on my thinkpad.
> Last night I needed to compiled  kernel module, so I went looking for 
> the kernel-headers, I clicked on the kernel-headers-686 and it selected 
> a few other packages for me, and added them to my system.
> However. the headers downloaded are actually 2.6.7.1-686 and I cannot 
> compile against them (or when I do, the module won't install on the 
> current kernel). Is this just a matter of the dev team not having the 
> time to catch up with the release this week?

There is no 2.6.7.1-686 kernel, and never has been.  It sounds like you
installed one of the old 2.6.7 kernel-headers packages from Debian in
universe, rather than the linux-headers package in main.

Again, this is in the FAQ.

> I suppose I should mention that the acx100 module that comes with Ubuntu 
> does not allow the signal strength to be properly represented, it always 
> shows 100%. Should this be reported to bugzilla, or left as most likely 
> the module will be updated in the next release?

Report a bug againt the 'linux' component.  Mention in which version you
verified the problem, and in which version you verified it was fixed.

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 - mdz