Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-30 Thread nate
> This could be where I've been going wrong. Whenever I rebuild the > kernel, and at the stage where I run dpkg, I get the warning about > there being an existing /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17 directory. > Normally I move this out of the way before running dpkg, and it > gets recreated by dpkg. How

Re: Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-30 Thread Paolo Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:30, Paolo Falcone wrote: > > > /usr/src/modules. >> >> The modules are downloaded already in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17 >> (as the installer placed them during the installation process) >> Use modconf to install them. > >Yes they are, but wh

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-30 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:30, Paolo Falcone wrote: > /usr/src/modules. > > The modules are downloaded already in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17 > (as the installer placed them during the installation process) > Use modconf to install them. Yes they are, but when I rebuild the kernel, I've been d

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-30 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:48, nate wrote: > on my ibm thinkpads(iSeries and T20) i use the standard > debian kernel, then build my own from sources. i also > install pcmcia from source, and alsa from source. then > i usually install the alsa utils and pcmcia utils from > packages and overwri

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-29 Thread nate
> Q) My CD set is 2.2 r3, with kernel 2.2.19pre17. > What is the difference between kernel 2.2.19pre17 and 2.2.19? pre17 is older then 2.2.19. it is a pre release of 2.2.19. i would strongly reccomend, if your compiling your own kernel to go with 2.2.19. not that theres any real problem with the

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-29 Thread Paolo Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Q) My CD set is 2.2 r3, with kernel 2.2.19pre17. >What is the difference between kernel 2.2.19pre17 and 2.2.19? 2.2.19 is more recent than 2.2.19pre17 >Q) Which kernel is best to install on a laptop? >Is it the -compact one that I see when I browse dselect? No idea,