diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/default.nix
index 73a39a46d0f..a753a7ea3c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, perl}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, perl, mktemp}:
 
 assert stdenv.system == "i686-linux";
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "linux-2.6.11.12";
+  name = "linux-2.6.17.1";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/linux-2.6.11.12.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "7e3b6e630bb05c1a8c1ba46e010dbe44";
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/system/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.1.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "0a8f1a66646bc6ac7b3ec3e8f51652a0";
   };
-  config = ./config;
+  config = ./config-2.6.17.1;
   inherit perl;
-  buildInputs = [perl];
+  buildInputs = [perl mktemp];
   arch="i386";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 603ae1b6a7f..ffc8402d997 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1837,7 +1837,7 @@ rec {
   };
 
   kernel = (import ../os-specific/linux/kernel) {
-    inherit fetchurl perl;
+    inherit fetchurl perl mktemp;
     stdenv = overrideGCC stdenv gcc34;
   };