Newer Kernel - how to???

[UdoB]

Hello everybody,

while definitely being happy that Zentyal 3 bases on Ubuntu LTS I run into the usual "hardware is too new" problem: my SATA-3 controller is not recognized by Kernel 3.2 - but it is running fine with Kernel 3.6 on this machine. (For lspci see Attachment). It seems my options are

• search and buy a supported controller. (Spend additional money)
• search for a trusted backport repository. (Which one?)
• build my own Kernel. (Again and again)

What would you guys do to get a 3.6 Kernel running on Zentyal 3 64bit with the smallest amount of re-occurring maintenance time for recompilation every time a security patch was rolled out?

Best regards

[ichat]

my main advice...    test your ass of in a lab enviroment  and than  add the kernel-ppa 

[UdoB]

my main advice...    test your ass of in a lab enviroment  and than  add the kernel-ppa

Thanks for the recommendation. Got myself a new controller ("SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9120 SATA 6Gb/s Controller") - so now no newer kernel than stock/Ubuntu is needed  :-)