I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . I won't be running X and will just need to use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel port modules. Have gone through the installation steps from floppy to the point where the system boots from the hard disk. Next, I need to get an Corega EtherII PCC-T ethernet card working in order to point dselect to the Packages.gz on the debian ftp or www site. My questions: * In accordance with advice from someone who had installed Linux on one of these beasts, I chose Debian 2.0 distribution (/dists/Debian-2.0/). Is this the preferred version for this machine and these needs? * while uname -a shows that the kernel running is 2.0.36, somehow modules are 2.0.34 . I tried to insmod pcmcia.o , etc. and got an error message that the modules don't machine the kernel. How could this happen and what's the best way to reinstall so it doesn't happen or fix the problem without reinstalling? * To see what would happen, I downloaded the pcmcia-modules deb file (2.0.36) from the Debian-2.0 site (copying it over to the Toshiba via floppies). This I was able to install with dpkg -i ; so, while the modules are 2.0.34, there are two sets of pcmcia modules, 2.0.34 and 2.0.36 . The Ethernet card requires pcnet_cs.0 so I entered the necessary lines in /etc/pcmcia/config and started pcmcia with "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start" (I have this card working on a Linux box that runs with Turbolinux [quite similar to Redhat]). On the Toshiba w/ Debian it's not perfect yet, but the card is being recognized, at least partially. Anything else I need to do? Does the network need to be configured before the card will be recognized properly? * Finally, I downloaded the kernel source from /Debian-2.0/ and tried dpkg -i. It seems that I need to install binutils first, or at the same time. Anything else needed before I can recompile the kernel? bin86, maybe? kernel headers of some kind? Thanks! Tony Laszlo Jiyugaoka, Tokyo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
