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Upgrading Slackware to 2.6 kernel

Posted on July 7, 2006 by Ajitabh

Yesterday I updated the slackware kernel to 2.6.16.22. I picked up this version from the testing directory on the slackware’s ftp site. The packages I needed were: kernel-generic-2.6.16.22-i486-1.tgz kernel-modules-2.6.16.22-i486-1.tgz alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.6.16.22-i486-1 Apart from these I installed the source package also kernel-source-2.6.16.22-i486-1.tgz … Continue reading →