installing 2.6.24 kernel and wifi drivers on Ubuntu
some platform details first : laptop : HP compaq nx 7400 Linux Distro : Ubuntu Gutsy Gibson (7.10) Linux Kernel : 2.6.24 Wifi Card : Intel Pro wireless 3945 card I compiled the kernel and created a kernel debian package using 'make-kpkg' , the list of commands i used are the following : cd [kernel source directory] make gconfig make-kpkg --initrd binary after the execution of the above commands is done , the debian packages for the kernel image, the headers, the documentation and the source are created in the parent directory of the linux kernel source directory . And after that it is simple installation to get the kernel working, ... but when i tried to compile and install the ipw3945 drivers from the source code, i had some really tough time, ...... later found out from a little googling that the wifi drivers to be used with the kernels version >=2.6.22 are the iwl3945 driver packages and not the ipw3945 , ....... th iwl3945 drivers can be configured to be compiled in...