On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:48:52 -0500
dick thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have looked all through the info and the best I can find is that Etch 
> uses version 2.6.18 of the Linux kernel.

Right!
Are you running a mission critical server?
  
> 
> My ethernet adapter is an ATTANSIC Gigabyte L1 (also released since the 
> takeover of ATTANSIC by ATHEROS as the ATHEROS Gigabyte L1.  From what I 
> have been able to find out the earliest kernel supporting this adapter 
> is the 2.6.22.

Then you need to upgrade to the 'lenny' distribution.
Or depending on what you are running, even SID.
That's my standard desktop now.

  That is the reason I am asking as I would like to take a 
> good look at Debian but if I can't connect to the ethernet with it then 
> it is useless to me.  

Stable is excellent for running servers and for the kind of staid
personality that still has tea and scones with his maiden aunts every
Sunday afternoon at the age of forty.
 
And he makes the scones.

Live a little

> Thanks in advance.

No worries.
Regards,

David Palmer.


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