On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:11:45PM +0000, rehm wrote: > I'm having problems updating my software list for dselect. > Under the debian documentation, if I got anything wrong, to update my > dselect list by using iso cd's i made of Woody r3, I would go > > -> apt-cdrom add ..which is succesful for all 7 that i got. > the etc/apt/sources.lst gets updated... > -> apt-get update ..which completes successfully... > > but when I run dselect and select 'Update'...the software lists > doesn't update. > What am i doing wrong? Have you told dselect to use the 'apt' method? All the others are effectively unsupported. > also i'm wondering if there's anything wrong with my cd's... am I > supposed to have the source for kernel 2.4.18bf2.4? No. > ...there is one for 2.4.18; i'm trying to build my eepro module (nic) > that worked for kernel 2.2.xx and I can't find the source for **bf2.4 > for my running *bf2.4 kernel ( i386 ) bf2.4 is (currently) just a particular kernel built from the 2.4.18 kernel source. You want kernel-source-2.4.18. > ..also the supplied eepro.o /eepro100.o in the distro doesn't seem to > work It doesn't? Worked for me. What error does it give you? Are you sure they're actually included in Debian? I thought eepro.o (or maybe the other one, whichever one Intel made themselves) was non-Free until 2.4.19... > ...problem might be the module source from intel So it didn't come from Debian? > ...but i believe i can only get a work around with the source for my > current running kernel (which is 2.4.bf2.4) No. A blank source tree is useless for building modules, you need the appropriate kernel-headers-<version>-<cpu>. The bf2.4 version of this deliberately doesn't exist, because bf2.4 is the install kernel...The install guide explicitly mentions this and tells you to install a proper kernel once the install is complete. > ....should i I compile and switch to 2.4.18? No. Install the kernel-image-2.4.18-386 and kernel-headers-2.4.18-386 packages, and reboot into it. Then you'll have a full set of kernel modules, and you'll also have the stuff you need to build whatever other non-free modules you want. Oh, and 'build-essential' if you want to start building stuff. > ...i'm not much of a compile builder myself and don't have time to > play with it...i've been spending time getting wet with debian > basics.. Then don't. Read: * The Debian Installation Manual (linked to from http://www.debian.org/) * Osamu's Debian Quick Reference (http://qref.sf.net/) * Will's NewbieDoc (http://newbiedoc.sf.net/) And you'll learn all the basic stuff you need :) > *! fyi and any good linux helper out there-> i'm using the i386 Woody > release and the kernel boots up flawless with all my needed modules > except for the module I yet haven't build... Hmmm? The modules you don't have don't load? Is that much of a surprise? :) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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