[plug] debian woody and kernels

[Russ Pitman]

Hello Sol:
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:27:21AM +0800, sol wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I followed Tony and Carl's advice and made my laptop unbootable. 8-) But I'm 
> pretty sure this has something to do with APM support for Vaios. I did some 
> more trolling around for info on vaio install and found that they don't like 
> 2.4 kernels < 2.4.17 which is what I'm using and higher is better seems to be 
> the verdict. 
> 2.4.18 (which is actually 2.4.17)  is the highest version of kernel source in 
> the debian package directory. I was wondering if there are any pitfalls in 
> getting non-deb kernel sources and compiling (specifically 2.4.20)???
> 
> I did this once some time ago and got my fingers singed....
> 
> regards,
> sol
> 
You can get 2.4.20 from the unstable(sid) tree.It's running fine on a mix of
woody/sarge/sid here on my firewall
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Cheers,
russ.