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== Building Drivers on baseline images ==

This section will explain how you can build your own drivers using our baseline images. First, to save image space we have not provided the linux-headers package installed on the image. You can obtain this using apt. So first, determine your debian's kernel image:

  {{{
node1-1:/usr/src# dpkg -l| grep image
ii  linux-image-2.6-686        2.6.18+5                        Linux kernel 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/P
ii  linux-image-2.6.18-3-686   2.6.18-7                        Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
  }}}

Then, proceed to install the kernel headers and kbuild for this package:

  {{{
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686 linux-kbuild-2.6.18 libc6-dev
  }}}


== Supported external drivers ==

We support two external sources of new drivers:

 * [wiki:Documentation/BuildingDrivers/Buildipw2200 Build ipw2200] - How to build the ipw2200 driver
 * [wiki:Documentation/BuildingDrivers/BuildMadwifi Build madwifi] - How to build the madwifi driver