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Re: need kernel 2.4 to install



On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:00:50AM -0700, Jeff wrote:
| Hello,
|   I am currently planing on putting Debian on a small
| partition on another machine just for playing with. 
| This wouldn't be a problem but the network card is a
| newer linksys card that I've only been able to get

What revision?  I have a Linksys LNE100TX rev 4.1 that works just fine
with the tulip module in 2.2.19.

| going with the 2.4.x series kernels.  I have also been
| able to install an old version of redhat once (or some
| rpm based distro anyway) and then upgrade the tulip
| driver and off I went.  Question I have is since the
| woody boot disks use 2.2.19 will they have the newer
| tulip driver or the old one?  I would just use my
| potato cd but I scratched it some time ago and it's
| now out of commission.  I really dont want to make a
| new potato cd just to get the kernel source installed,
| upgrade the driver, then put sid on the machine.  I
| can't think of how to get Debian on this machine any
| other way since I don't have a cd.  Any thoughts are
| welcome. Thanks

Can you borrow another NIC from somewhere to do the upgrade (after the
2.2.19 install) then switch the NICs back?

-D



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