Thanks for your reply. I decided to upgrade my kernel since it was old
anyway. I used make-kpkg on the source tree that comes with the debian
package linux-source-2.6.16 (My apt-get can't find a 2.6.17 version),
which seemed to work. However, my resulting kernel was not bootable. I
installed initrd-tools and ran:
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16_10.00 2.6.16
That made an initrd image. Then when I booted into it, I got many pages
of the error that /lib/modules/2.6.16/modules.dep was not found, and a
kernel panic. Only there is a modules.dep file. Here is a listing of
the directory:
deepblue:/lib/modules/2.6.16# ls -l
total 888
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 17 18:05 build ->
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.16
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 17 18:05 kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184013 Aug 17 18:05 modules.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69 Aug 17 18:05 modules.ccwmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155119 Aug 17 18:05 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 813 Aug 17 18:05 modules.ieee1394map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 394 Aug 17 18:05 modules.inputmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21223 Aug 17 18:05 modules.isapnpmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160987 Aug 17 18:05 modules.pcimap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883 Aug 17 18:05 modules.seriomap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89576 Aug 17 18:05 modules.symbols
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 249064 Aug 17 18:05 modules.usbmap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 17 18:05 source ->
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.16
Googling doesn't help. I'm afraid I don't know what to do next.
Thanks again for your valuable help.
-Brandon