Comment 44 for bug 48556

There is an easier way to accomplish the same:

* change to edgy repositories
   * sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
   * change dapper to edgy in the file
* sudo apt-get update

use Synaptic to upgrade linux-686-smp, linux-image-2.6.17-xx-686, linux-restricted-2.6.17-xx-686

Reboot
* Change sources.list back to Dapper
* sudo apt-get update

Now you're using the edgy's working 17 kernel without breaking stuff (from earlier test with S96J) and staying on Dapper's stable repos as well.