On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:26:29PM -0500, Andrew Weaver wrote: > I originally installed the "stable" distro because I didn't know any > better and I've since upgraded to "testing". It's definately an x86; > it's a PII laptop. I didn't realize I was using such an old kernel > until I tried to install the linuxant wifi driver and it told me. okay, so which "stable" did you install and how long ago? Is it possibly still oldstable (woody)? It might make sense for you ,if its not too late, to upgrade to sarge and then to testing. You appear to be trying to jump at least one if not more releases, and that's not likely to work very well. .02 A > > On 5/17/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: > >On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 14:07 -0500, Andrew Weaver wrote: > >> I'm trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4 by running: > > > >Jeezus, man, how old is your system? > > > >By any chance, are you running a non-i386 system? > > > >[snip] > >> > >> How can I get around this? > > > >Kernel 2.2 is pretty darned ancient. Why not just reinstall from > >scratch? > > > >-- > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >Ron Johnson, Jr. > >Jefferson, LA USA > > > >Remember when environmental doom-and-gloomers said that it would > >take 10 years to put out the 750 post-GW1 oil fires? Yet they > >were all out in 6 months. > >Remember when environmental doom-and-gloomers said in ~1975 that > >the oil would run out in 50 years? > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > > > > -- > Andrew Weaver >
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