> > Will stepping up to potato (I assume that's what you mean by a 2.2 > based kernel) necessarily fix the memory problem? Also, > how big a headache am I in for in compiling the kernel and pcmcia > services? I'm a bit of a novice at this Linux system administration > stuff, although I've been a Unix user for years. >
you do not need to update to potato just yet. slink is fully happy with a 2.2 kernel. Install the kernel-package and read its docs, pcmcia and kernel are quite easy with it. The steps boil down to: place kernel source in /usr/src (or install the kernel-source-<foo> package) grab pcmcia-source untar the sources cd linux (or make the symlink) make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision=`uname -n`.1 kernel_image make-kpkg modules_image cd .. dpkg -i kernel-image-<foo>.deb pcmcia-modules-<foo>.deb reboot Read the docs before doing this yourself.
