[Voyage-linux] kernel headers

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

On 4/22/2013 1:32 PM, Michael Hartje wrote:
> thanks for the quick relply. Well, I understand that the headers are provided with the release -- but what about the 
> release candidates? the last voyage release seems to be 0.8. If you select voayage to install it on a new flash card 
> system, you are looking for long duration fo future operation even in this "frozen" state. So I decided to prepare the 
> system with 0.9rc2. But with 0.9rc2 I selected the kernel version 3.6.9 as of end of 2012 -- is this too new? 
Although I don't understand why insisting on the kernel-headers as it could be re-generated by kernel source, but here 
it is:

http://www.voyage.hk/dists/experimental/linux/linux-headers-3.6.9-voyage_12.2-1_i386.deb

> out-of-kernel modules are sometimes a must when you have the Realtek network chipset rtl 8168 since the kernel module 
> r8169 has some problems with this chipset. The module r8169 is loaded but the network does not funtion with it. Some 
> people recommend to use the manufacturers provided driver for it -- and this seems to do the job. What is your idea 
> how to solve this situation? 
I would contact the manufacture or the related developer to fix the vanilla kernel ASAP.  Doing so it would benefit the 
whole Linux community in a cost-effective way.

-- 
Regards,
Kim-man "Punky" Tse

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