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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