Comment 6 for bug 1017334

OK, forgive my ignorance but I'm having some issues using the mainline kernel. I installed both linux-image-3.5.0-999.201206250405_amd64.deb and the corresponding linux-header package (not sure if that was necessary). However, it's totally unusable. No drivers are loaded what-so-ever (USB mouse, wireless, sound all don't work at least). I must be missing something. Am I going to have to build all these drivers from source just to test this, or is there an easier way?

If I have to build everything from source, I'm not even sure I'd get everything honestly - even though I'm pretty familiar with all the back-end stuff.