I just installed my first 64-bit system, using a stock 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 kernel. All of my hardware is working except for a DLink DWL-122 wireless USB adapter, which I've had for about a year and have gotten to work on two other Debian boxes by compiling linux-wlan-ng against the kernel source for a locally compiled kernel.
Here's what I have at the moment to build a kernel with through apt-get: #apt-cache search kernel-source ... kernel-patch-debian-2.4.27 - Debian patches to Linux 2.4.27 kernel-patch-debian-2.6.8 - Debian patches to Linux 2.6.8 kernel-source-2.2.25 - Linux kernel source for version 2.2.25 kernel-source-2.4.27 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.27 with Debian patches kernel-source-2.6.8 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with Debian patches kernel-tree-2.4.27 - Linux kernel source tree for building Debian kernel images kernel-tree-2.6.8 - Linux kernel source tree for building Debian kernel images ... Here's my sources.list: #cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ stable main deb-src ftp://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main My questions: If I apt-get kernel-source-2.6.8, and compile it with /boot/config-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8, will I lose any functionality in the kernel? I don't have linux-wlan-ng available through apt-get; if I download the source from elsewhere, will I be able to compile it against a locally compiled kernel with something like `make CC=gcc-3.4`? Is there anything else that I need to know about compiling an amd64 kernel? Thanks all ahead of time for your help. bob Barber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]