Netgear FA311--compiling the module

I'm running potato, and I'm trying to get my Netgear FA311 nic card going. I downloaded the natsemi driver from scyld, but when I try to compile it using: gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c natsemi.c I'm inundated with errors. I've attached the complete log, but they start like this: In file inclu

Re: Documentation for total beginners

I take it you missed the flap last week or so about newbie documentation :) I'll give you a perspective of a (self-proclaimed) Windows stud transitioning to Linux. It is very, very hard. Even as I type this (in mutt) I'm putting in my own hard returns because I have no clue how to set my margins t

libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2?

New to Debian/Linux-- I d/l'ed Sun's JDK 1.3 (rpm), ran alien to get a deb, and used dpkg to install. When I try to compile w/javac, I get: /usr/java/jdk1.3.0_02/bin/i386/native_threads/javac: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such fil