Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

[John Peter]

Mark Healey wrote:

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:31:35 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:

 

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:45:09PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote:

   

I recieved many suggestions to remedy the problem, non of them easy.

I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel.  I figure that it
would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the
hardware I have (or think I might add in the future) and none for what
I won't ever have.  But, this is hacker level stuff I've never done,
so I'm going to need a whole-lotta help.
     

What is currently on the machine you wish to convert to debian?
   

It's blank.

I'd
 

advise against compiling a new kernel at this stage, but I don't know
which suggestions you have deemed hard.
   

Here's the story.  I installed with disk 1 and my onboard Broadcom
4401 nic isn't supported.  I asked on this list for help and was told
by numerous people that later kernels supported it and that I should
get the latest and compile it.
I thought that this was excessively geeky since I had managed to
install support for this card as a module under Redhat.  But I figured
that I might learn something.
Anyway this has been a huge pain in the ass
since the machine has no networking and consequently no apt-get (which
I've been led to believe is a package retreiver).  After burning a
bunch of CD's I finally got all the requirements installed and
installed and compiled 2.4.22.
I then made and make installed the module.  Now I need to know what
lines I have to add to what files to get the module working.
 

Well, now it's easy - just edit /etc/modules and add the name of the 
compiled
module.
It will be loaded at boot from then on.

Cheers

John

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