How to update the kernel?

[tvilkov]

Hello!
Today i've installed Debian 4.0 Etch on my desktop. It has a kernel 2.6.18, which doesn't support my soundcard, therefore I have no sound (same thing in Fedora Core 6). I need to install kernel 2.6.20 in order for my sound to work correctly without any problems. Do you know of an easy way of doing this (I am new to kernel stuff)? i have searched the web, and most pages were about compiling my own kernel. Here's one of the pages I've found - http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_debian?. Is it how I should do it? Does Unstable have that kernel in it's repos?

Thank you.

[Vergil83]

Yes that kernel is in unstable.
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/s...0&searchon=all

If you don't want to make your own, that will be the best way

[tvilkov]

Thanks a lot for your help, it really helped and I've got my sound working. Also, do you know about network - I can't seem to get VPN correctly set up (although it works with kvpnc, but rather buggy). Followed the following tutorial - http://homenet.corbina.net/index.php?showtopic=10506. I think it's to do with the fact that my eth device does not stay the same all the time - each time I turn on the computer, or restart it, the name of the device changes like eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3 etc. At the beginning (when Debian loads), it sais - eth1 - no such devices or something.

[Vergil83]

sorry, don't know anything about VPN.

[tvilkov]

thanks a lot anyways!