Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel
On Friday 23 January 2004 02:01 pm, brfg3 at yahoo wrote:
> I have Debian3 rc2. After installing from the CD, the command uname -r
> shows a 2.2 kernel. I want to use a 2.4 kernel for USB and IPTables
> support. I made two attemps to install a debian kernel image from two
> different tutorials and both times kernel did not find the standard netgear
> 311 nic card. It works in 2.2, though. I changed the nic to a linksys, and
> then a dlink (both cards are detected by suse 7.0 - 9.0 and Red Hat 7.1 -
> 9.0), and still got the same result. This leads me to the conclusion that
> there must be something I missed. Is there some other undocumented or
> little-known step to making a the standard Debian 2.4.18 kernel detect my
> NIC? ? Is there some way to install a 2.4.18 kernel while installing from
> the cd, and maybe avoid this hassle?
>
> TIA !
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You may want to try to install discover.
apt-get install discover
apt-cache show discover will provide you with some info about what it does
hardware dection wise.
John
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