on Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:42:06PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:41:54PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > | on Fri, 09 Apr 2004 01:47:26PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > | > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:32:10PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > [...] > | > | how, then, should i go about installing the kernel image? > | > > | > Try aptitude. Trace through the Depends/Conflicts and figure out > | > what's wrong. Something must be conflicting somewhere. (maybe you > | > just need to upgrade modutils while you install module-init-tools?) > | > | after a bit of poking in aptitude, which was very noninformative, > > It may take a little getting used to, but aptitude combines the data > available from 'apt-cache show' and 'apt-cache policy' in a way that > is navigable. What I would have done in your situation is gone to the > 'modutils' package. Press enter to view the package's details. Some > line in that view would most likely have been red indicating broken or > magenta indicating will-be-removed. Scrolling through the display you > can see what packages and versions are in the depends and conflicts > tags for that package as well as the list of what packages (and > versions) depend on or conflict with the current package. In > hindsight, I now know that it would have shown that module-init-tools > conflicts with modutils <= 2.4.21-1 and your modutils fit that > criteria (hence apt-get wanted to remove it to solve the conflict).
cool. i feel like i did this and didn't find anything useful, but
maybe i just didn't spend long enough poking.
> | i tried your suggestion of upgrading modutils (from 2.4.15-1 to
> | 2.4.26-1) -- beautiful. then the 2.6.4 kernel image goes on without
> | trying to remove everything and its mother.
>
> Lucky guess. :-). At least it worked for you.
yeah, thanks :)
> | of course, i've totally failed to show the slickness of apt to my
> | coworker, because as soon as i booted up with 2.6.4, my mouse (neither
> | USB nor PS2) didn't work, and i wasn't online. (right now, i've
> | reverted to 2.4 to type this :-P). surely the 2.6 kernel comes with
> | USB support compiled in? am i just going to have to suck it up and
> | roll my own kernel?
>
> I'm using the stock 2.6 kernel on 5 machines.
>
> There are some differences from 2.4, though, mainly in the module and
> device driver organization. Some key differences, and probably the
> ones you are running into, :
> 2.4 2.6
> --- ---
> usb-uhci uhci-hcd
> usb-ohci ohci-hcd
> usb-ehci ehci-hcd
> psmouse (the PS/2 mouse driver is in a module now)
okay, excellent. thanks for pointong this out -- now i have a
functional mouse under 2.6.
> I haven't noticed any changes in networking, but that might be
> dependent on the hardware and what modules I already had configured
> to be loaded.
the network error i get when i try to reconfigure my network
interfaces is below:
Reconfiguring network interfaces: cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such
file or directory
Unrecognized kernel version
done.
i can tell that _something's_ not recognizing my kernel version, but
what is it? i probably just need to grab a newer package of
something, but what?
thanks again!
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