godjohnson
New Member
Hello,
I am running on a gateworks GW7200 board SOC which runs Ubuntu 20.04. According to uname -r my kernel version is 5.15.15-g141f17ec4d38.
I dont understand what this means, and I dont know which of the millions of packages and files online to use when trying to upgrade. I have also tried to do a dist-upgrade to no luck.
I need to compile some drivers against the kernel headers but am told they are incomplete or not present. I dont know which kernel headers to download or how to install them.
I have also tried compiling a new kernel, but I get an error about kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz missing. I dont know where to get these, or which version they would correspond to.
Under normal circumstances I think you can use uname -r and query the package manager to find relevant packages to upgrade and install these things, but the hex at the end of my kernel version is definitely throwing me off.
Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
I am running on a gateworks GW7200 board SOC which runs Ubuntu 20.04. According to uname -r my kernel version is 5.15.15-g141f17ec4d38.
I dont understand what this means, and I dont know which of the millions of packages and files online to use when trying to upgrade. I have also tried to do a dist-upgrade to no luck.
I need to compile some drivers against the kernel headers but am told they are incomplete or not present. I dont know which kernel headers to download or how to install them.
I have also tried compiling a new kernel, but I get an error about kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz missing. I dont know where to get these, or which version they would correspond to.
Under normal circumstances I think you can use uname -r and query the package manager to find relevant packages to upgrade and install these things, but the hex at the end of my kernel version is definitely throwing me off.
Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
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