mikas notebook

packages: kernel-package, gcc, libc6-dev, binutils, make, gawk, gzip, shellutils, grep, bin86 (for i386), libncurses5-dev (for make menuconfig), initramfs-tools (to generate initrd-image)

kernel: ftp://ftp.eu.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/

untar kernel archive and start kernel config:

# /usr/src$ tar xvjf linux-2.6.y.x.tar.bz2
# /usr/src$ ln -s linux-2.6.y.x linux
# /usr/src$ cd linux
# /usr/src/linux$ make menuconfig
# /usr/src/linux$ make oldconfig # when copy old .config file to /usr/src/linux

get system information:

# lspci
# lsmod
# dmesg

compile kernel and generate .deb package:

# /usr/src/linux$ make-kpkg --initrd --revision 0.1 kernel_image
# /usr/src$ dpkg -i archive.deb

links:
http://debiananwenderhandbuch.de/kernelbauen.html
http://wiki.debianforum.de/DebianizedLinuxKernel
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=module-assistant