Kurt Raschke wrote: > Well, I've looked at what cross compiling involves, and I think I'll hold on > that until I've got a working system. So, what's involved in doing the null > modem PPP install? I've already got a cable that I can use to connect my > i386 box and my Starmax, but I don't know how to set up a PPP server, nor do > I know how to get the installation program to use a null-modem connection. > Note that I'm talking about the program that runs after the system reboots on > its own.
Are you talking about setting up the server on an i386 Linux box? There's something in the new PPP howto, which is in the HOWTO index at: http://www.kernel.org/LDP/ > Also, is there any kind of "extended drivers disk" that might have an rtl8139 > driver, or an rtl8029 driver? Are there any other drivers that I could get > to work with either of these cards? An open question to the list: with the default Debian kernel config, why are there 119 drivers in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net on i386, and just ten on PPC? (Do that many of them not work?) Another thing: is there an rtl8029 driver anywhere? (Under development even?) I just got two freebie cards and would like to make my StarMax a router. :-) > I ask these questions because it would be much easier for me to not have to > try to work around not having decent connectivity until I am able to > recompile the kernel, unless it's easier to compile a kernel under Debian > than under other Linuxes. Actually, it is, if you like your kernels in packages. Just get the "kernel-package" package, go to the source directory, make [menu|x|old]config, then "make-kpkg binary" builds kernel-source, kernel-headers, and kernel-image Debian packages (where "image" includes the vmlinux kernel, the .coff kernel to boot from a floppy, the config file, and the modules directory). Personally, I like having my kernels in Debian packages, because it's easier to install, upgrade, remove, and detect conflicts in a consistent way across the system. HTH, -Adam P.
