Can some one explain the relation between kernel upgrade and slink->potato upgrade? I had a working slink, and did this: 1) updated from my 2.0.36 kernel to 2.2.14 by installing just kernel-image-2.2.14-ide. This was a failure in that after the update, (on network start, I think) I saw messages like "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ... eth0: not found" and I had no network connection. So I uninstalled and went back to 2.0.36 2) Reading in some doc that potato supports both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels, I did a slink->potato upgrade. Almost everything worked, but I got messages telling me update-modules failed, and several warnings about modutils, seemingly indicating something in potato is not completely happy with my 2.0.36 kernel or its configuration.
Right now, the only thing that is not working is pulling mail from a local IMAP server. After my upgrade, I can't do it, from either vm under emacs, or from the Netscape mail client. (Thank goodness for VMWare -- I can still my mail from Netscape under Win98 under VMWare under potato). So: Do I need the new kernel? Is it possible the modutils problems are related to the bum access to IMAP? Thanks for any help, Will Dowling ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
