Comments on: Want the new Linux 2.6.24 Kernel? Easy Upgrade Tutorial

By: Scott Morris

Scott Morris — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:34:55 +0000

Richard,

I do. Glad it worked for you. I’m always glad to help others out. Thanks for stopping by!

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:10:04 +0000

Scott,

Hope you still read comments made on this post since it’s been quite a while. All the same, I just wanted to say thank you very much. I reluctantly (manual kernel upgrading is kind of spooky!) followed your tutorial and it worked to the bone! Thanks for sharing.

Nice one Scott!

Regards,
Richard

By: Veritas

Veritas — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:08:44 +0000

Thank you! It help me very much

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:39:58 +0000

Big up to Scott Morris for this superb tutorial.

I didn’t have the guts to change to 2.6.24 with opensuse 10.3 but with the help of this tutorial i easily succeeded.

Good work!

Greets

Martin

By: kurt

kurt — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:51:29 +0000

How do I get Yast to know the new kernel is installed so an autoupdate doesn’t change it to an earlier version?

By: kurt

kurt — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:35:39 +0000

Well, I figured out why USB devices weren’t being recognized: I had disabled SCSI support — who knew the two were dependent?

Still don’t know how to get the app-armour patch and apply it to get that back.
Kurt

By: kurt

kurt — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:04:17 +0000

instead of going through that last part, I’ve seen (and tried) “make install” and it seemed to work. is there some reason not to do that?
Also, I noticed I don’t have app-armor support any more, nor is it recognizing USB pen drives upon insertion any more. When I go back to the old kernel in GRUB, they work again.
Kurt

By: Steve Francia

Steve Francia — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:22:06 +0000

Why not perform a “make rpm” instead of “make ; make modules ; make modules_install”
then the kernel can be managed by the package manager.

By: rd1381

rd1381 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:53:05 +0000

this version of kernel does not support my modem . i know that i should install its driver but the driver gives an error that …/../../Modules.sysvds or something like this is missing

my modem : conexant 56k hcf modem (dialup)

By: Scott Morris

Scott Morris — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:20:48 +0000

Robert,
Hey, I’m glad it has helped you out. Thanks for stopping by.

By: Robert McKee

Robert McKee — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:44:31 +0000

Hello,
I wanted to say “Thank You” for the tutorial above. I’ve been using Linux since 2000, and have not been brave enough to compile my own Kernel until now. Using OpenSuse, I updated to the 2.6.16-1 kernel update. When I did, my cpufreq did not work anymore. I decided to take the plunge and try to “roll my own” Kernel with the newest 2.6.24. It works great! Now, if I just need to find a way to save this tutorial…. Thanks again! Robert