on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 02:09:13AM -0500, Simon Law (sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote:
>
> > Now I'm confused. Well, OK, I was born that way.
> >
> > New Debian installation. Need to compile some source code, build an
> > object. Have makefile and a .C file, provided by NIC card vendor.
> >
> > Run make. Make complains that "modversions.h" is not found. It seems
> > to be a deeply nested dependency.
> >
> > I'm guessing that this file lives in one of the "kernel-headers" .deb
> > files.
> >
> > But hey, what's this ---
> >
> > At debian.org, there is no .deb for the i386 build for
> > kernel-headers-2.2.18pre21. Oddly enough, there is such a file for
> > sparc.
> >
> > Nor is there such a .deb file on my debian distribution CD. So which
> > .deb file do I need to get this steenking header file?
> >
> > Is there some clue in the naming of this distro ("2.2.18pre21") that
> > would lead me to the answer?
> >
> > Clearly I haven't learned to think in Linux terms yet...
> >
> Hello,
>
> You guessed correctly! You should upgrade to kernel-image-2.2.19 and
> get kernel-headers-2.2.19. 2.2.18pre21 is phased out.
Actually, 2.2.20's out, though not yet packaged for Debian last I
checked. There are some security-related bugs addressed in it. I'd
pick 2.2.20, or, feeling adventurous (hey, it's a friend's laptop),
a 2.4.10 kernel.
Peace.
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