Anyone ever successfully installed a debian kernel pacakge?
I've been trying to compile a specific kernel module.
So far no luck. So now I'm compiling and installing a kernel from sources.
All because I want my scanner to work in debian. Funny it used to work out of the box in other distros, but in debian it is installing some funky wrong module. Granted it is a parallel port scanner.
I've never been able to compile a module to work with a stock debian binary kernel. I've ended up having to download the sources and compile the debian way (tm) myself. The biggest problem has been including all of the modules I need, and getting a base kernel setup. But once I had that down, I could pop in a new version of sources, and just run a script to generate my own binary debian kernel.
Some good references for compiling from source in debian are: http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-kernel-recompile.php http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s05.html.en http://www.e-aiyama.com/~toshi/Computer/Linux/KernelCompile.html
Jeremy