manually downloading Ubuntu kernels.

[Jason Joines]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Jason Joines wrote:
>>     Where can you manually download Ubuntu kernels.  I've browsed the 
>> archives at http://us.archive.ubuntu.com but all I've found with kernel 
>> package names are files just a few KB in size that appear to be metadata 
>> instead of actual kernels.
>>
>>     I'm using 2.6.17 on Kubuntu 6.10 but need to try an older kernel and 
>> can't seem to get anything earlier than 2.6.17 to compile.  Since Ubuntu 
>> 6.06 was using a 2.6.15 kernel I thought I'd try that but have been 
>> unable to find it.
> 
> Try http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.15/
> .  However, I doubt you'll be able to use an older kernel with Edgy.
> What are you testing?  Maybe you should just install Dapper on another
> machine (if possible).
> 
> Matthew Flaschen


     Thanks, I'll try one of those.

     It's an lm-sensors issue.  I can't control the fans on my MythTV 
box.  It's an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard.  The box came with Fedora Core 
5 on it with a 2.6.16 kernel.  I didn't care for Fedora and the install 
was broken anyway.  I'd just switched to Kubuntu from SuSE (after 7 
years of SuSE use because of the novell microshaft deal ) so I installed 
Kubuntu on it instead.

      Everything is working and is being used heavily but I can't get 
the fans to quieten down.  The Fedora install used a module, w83627ehf, 
that won't load in Ubuntu 2.6.17.  I tried 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 also. 
After much Googling it seems that there was a bug introduced in 2.6.17 
that won't have a fix until 2.6.21.  The bug wasn't present prior to 
2.6.17.
     I had no problems compiling 2.6.17 and later from either the Ubuntu 
or Vanilla sources but can't get anything earlier to work.  It fails 
with lots of references to "undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'".

     SuSE used to provide a KOTD ( kernel of the day ) area on their FTP 
server where you could get various pre-compiled kernels to try at your 
own risk.  I'm still learning my way around Ubuntu.


Jason
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