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RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]



Upgraded to 2.6.12. The network now comes up beautifully.

Thanks for the help!

Peter 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Coppens [mailto:Peter.Coppens@datadirect.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:02 PM
> To: TR; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot 
> [newbie alert]
> 
> > A search in google with 'linux kernel Xircom CBEM56G' gives 
> thousands
> > of pages indicating trouble. Most of all 2.4 kernels. Why 
> don you try
> > installing 2.6.x (x > 10)?
> > 
> I guess I could try that. But to be honest I am faced with the same
> problem: "lost in the forest"
> 
> There should be a 2.6.8 kernel with the 3.1 distro - not sure where or
> how I can install/enable that.
> 
> And you suggest to go for 2.6.10 or later - so I e.g. bumped into
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/ where the image 
> directory for
> what interests me
> (http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.11-i386/ I
> guess) is empty.
> 
> So what I am looking for is a pointer to a procedure to 
> install an i386
> 2.6.>10 kernel, or if that is not avialable (either the 
> procedure or the
> image), a procedure to compile and install this beast on an 
> existing 3.1
> 2.4.x Debian machine. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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