(top posting is bad) On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Thierry Bothorel <thierry.bothorel at gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/11/21 Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it at gmail.com>: >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Thierry Bothorel >> <thierry.bothorel at gmail.com> wrote: >>> 2008/11/20 Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it at gmail.com>: >> Ok, I see that you motherboard uses the old interface (and has >> non-working stub of the new one - just like mine); the driver should >> work fine, but testing will involve a recompilation of the kernel >> (what version are you using?), are you comfortable with this? > > To be honest, no :-). Can I do that from a live-cd or from a > virtualized machine and just copy and install the final deb file on my > real system and install it ? Hum, not really. If you're on Debian the recompilation is mostly automatic: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-building YMMV with other distros. Luca
