diff --git a/package/base/linux24/linux24.desc b/package/base/linux24/linux24.desc
index 9925f45cf..1857897b7 100644
--- a/package/base/linux24/linux24.desc
+++ b/package/base/linux24/linux24.desc
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 [O] vanilla_ver="2.4.21"
 [O] var_append lx_patches " " "i2c-2.8.0-2.4.21.patch acpi-20030619-2.4.21.diff.bz2"
 
-[D] 4044266806 linux-2.4.21.tar ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
+[D] 4044266806 linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
 [D] 2504740549 i2c-2.8.0-2.4.21.patch !http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/devel/i2c/linux-2.4.21-i2c-2.8.0.patch
 [D] 1553276147 acpi-20030619-2.4.21.diff.gz http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/acpi/