erc

I've got a question. I was looking for a decent irc client for the console and I have found 2 or 3 that I like. I ran across a thing called erc which is supposed to be an erc client for emacs. Never got ti to work though so I have no idea how good it is but it looked like it might be kind of neat.

cd-writer question

I need some help here. I've just about got my hardware setup but I'm not sure how to configure a couple things. I put in the SCSI emulaton i my kernel because you supposedly need it to make an IDE CD-Writer to work. My CD-Writer is on /dev/hdd so how woudl I make the ide-scsi driver get loaded inst

kernel warning what should I do?

I had to recompile my kernel today because my sound wasn't working right and a couple other things weren't working. So I recompiled it and everything works but I get a warning now about /boot/system.map not matching kernel datawhat do I do to fix that.