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upgrading from kernel 2.2 to 2.6
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| murdocj 2005-09-05, 5:47 pm |
| I'm an experienced Unix programmer but new to administering Linux. A
while back I installed Debian 3.0 R2 on an old PC but didn't get too
far (e.g. I have the console running, no X, no network). Kernel is
2.2.20.
I'm now trying to get networking going. Looks like my ethernet card
(Netgear FA311) should be supported in a more recent kernel, so I'm
trying to upgrade to linux 2.6.13.
I've never rebuilt the kernel before, and I'm trying to reconcile info
from debian.org with my current install and with the book "Running
Linux".
"Running Linux" says that on a Debian system I would expect to see
/usr/src/kernel-source-versionnumber, and that /usr/include/linux and
/usr/include/asm are symlinks to the current kernel source to provide
some headers when compiling other programs.
On my current setup, there's no kernel source in /usr/src, and
/usr/include/linux are directories, not symlinks. The instructions on
debian.org talk about just downloading the kernel source to any
convenient directory and making and installing, and don't mention the
/usr/include directories.
So do I need to worry /usr/include/linux and asm?
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| On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:47:51 +0000, murdocj wrote:
> Looks like my ethernet card
> (Netgear FA311) should be supported in a more recent kernel
Check TULIP options
-> Device Drivers
x -> Network device support
x -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
x -> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
x -> Tulip family network device support
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