Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Robert Packer wrote:

> I am a complete newbie to this and don't have a clue how to compile a
> kernel(I'm reading up, but still...), so is it possible to make the
> 2.4 kernel work with a nic card that needs a tulip driver? It works
> fine with the 2.2.20 kernel but if possible I'd like to use the latest
> kernel. Or is it the wiser thing to use the old kernel and then later
> try to upgrade to the new kernel?
>
> If someone could explain in big dummy terms how to do this it would
> be
> great. :P
>
> Robert
>
>
>  
Compiling a kernel is a great thing to do if you want the education, or 
if you have some esoteric need to do so, but for 90%+ of the population 
out there, the standard Debian kernels will do just fine.

That should be the case here; support for the tulip driver is built-into 
the standard 2.4 kernels.

So, just "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.24-686" (or whatever kernel 
version you want -- "apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4" will show you a 
list of available versions). After the reboot into the new kernel, you 
may find that the tulip driver has already loaded automagically; if not, 
just run "modconf" and select the "tulip" driver.

--
Kent