I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been unsuccessful in compiling their source code. I've been trying to compile and use the 2.4.8 kernel because 2.4 should have National Semiconductor chipset support (and hence my netgear card) but when I try to boot I get nothing. The screen says:
LILO Linux Loader blahblah............ Uncompressing the kernel... Ok, booting the kernel. And then it hangs. Doesn't go blank, just sits there w/ a blinking cursor. A friend of mine, quite experienced w/ debian, has been helping me and he is stumped. I have read that older machines could have a problem w/ bzImage, but I thought the debian release was in bz format, and the CD kernel image runs correctly. Any help? Thx Matt ------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html
