On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:31:40AM +0100, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi, > > On 2007-12-28 04:19 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:26:00AM -0800, schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > > heard to say: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r > >> 2.4.27-3-386 > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > > Ah. Ok, you're running a very very old kernel (one that's not even > > part of etch, let alone lenny) with up-to-date user-space software. I > > bet the problem is related to the hardware detection code, which > > probably doesn't know about whatever old driver your kernel needs. > > > > Could you try installing the latest kernel in lenny and see if it > > helps? I believe that would be linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 -- obviously > > only if you have a 686+ chip (anything made in the last 5 years will be). > > He's not running lenny, the libc6 there does not work at all with a 2.4 > kernel.
And of course /etc/debian_version would say "lenny/sid" on lenny. Doh. In that case, I'm not sure *what* he's running, because he clearly has testing in his sources.list. I still think installing a 2.6 series kernel is probably a good idea. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
