Kernel upgrade 2.6.13

[Ruben Moretti]

You can do "make rpm" too.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brad" <b.trecks at gmail.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade 2.6.13


> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 17:44 +0200, Cédric MARCOUX wrote:
>> I "simply" want to upgrade 2.6.13 on my FC4 (398)
>> The reason is that I have saw that this kernel will make my Hauppauge
>> WinTC PCI work (model 747) on several forum.
>>
>> The problem is that I really don't know how to do this???
>> I know that I have to download the new kernel on kernel.org and make a
>> symbolic link to /sur/src/linux
>> After that, I don't know how to do.
>>
>> Is there some howto or an easy way to do that? Is this recommended?
>
> It's pretty easy to do. Assuming you download the gz from kernel.org, do
>
> cd /usr/src
> tar zxvf linux-2.6.13.tar.gz
>
> You can then
>
> ln -s linux-2.6.13 linux
>
> if you wish. Then copy your .config file from your fedora kernel-devel
> tree to /usr/src/linux, and do
>
> make oldconfig
>
> and answer the questions about the new parameters. You can probably just
> take the default answers, but you might want to use 1000 Hz rather than
> the new default of 250 Hz for the timer rate. Now you can do
>
> make menuconfig
>
> to find and enable your Hauppage options. I generally edit the .config
> by hand, and change CONFIG_LOCALVERSION to be something unique and
> meaningful to me, e.g. "-bwp", but you don't have to. Then do a
>
> make clean
> make
>
> Then su into root, or use sudo, or whatever, and
>
> make modules_install
> make install
>
> and you're done. Check /boot to make sure the images were copied there,
> and check /boot/grub/grub.conf to make sure there are menu selections
> for your new kernel. Boot into grub, select your new kernel, and boot
> it. If you have any problems, just reboot and select your fedora kernel.
> Then, assuming your new kernel works properly, you can make any custom
> kernel modules you might have like ndiswrapper, etc.
>
> Brad
>
> PS The make stage might take 30+ minutes with all the options and
> modules fedora builds, but it's easiest to leave them in unless you know
> exactly what you need and don't need.
>
>
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