Tomorrow I aim to recompile the kernel for a VALinux 2250 Raided server box running Debian 2.2 if at all possible. I need to recompile the kernel because of some really odd network interface problems (the two interfaces on the dual NIC always resolve against the motherboard NIC, eth0) and our file serving software - Ethershare for Mac file serving - needs a higher kernel than the current 2.2.14 we are running.
The 2.2.14 kernel is a VA customised kernel, with support for the boxes NICs and RAID. I haven't done a recompile before. Is it likely that the box will have the drivers/modules I require to support the SCSI drives and network interfaces on the box? Also, the box has dual PIII processors. Do I need an SMP kernel? VA does have 2.2.18 kernels on its website, but they are in rpm format. VA's ftp site file listing shows the following available files (amongst 87774 others): ./debian/dists/potato/local/source/kernel-source-2.2.18pre11-i686-smp_va1.1.orig.tar.gz ./debian/dists/potato/local/source/kernel-source-2.2.18pre11-i686-smp_va1.1.diff.gz ./debian/dists/potato/local/source/kernel-source-2.2.18pre11-i686-smp_va1.1.dsc ./debian/dists/potato/local/source/kernel-source-2.2.18pre11-i686_va1.1.orig.tar.gz ./debian/dists/potato/local/source/kernel-source-2.2.18pre11-i686_va1.1.diff.gz ./debian/dists/potato/local/source/kernel-source-2.2.18pre11-i686_va1.1.dsc but the debian folder on the site does not allow anonymous ftp access. I'm in great need of help. Thanks to any respondents! Rory
