I have installing woody debain and trying to add the smbfs option to mount
windows drives without having to recompile the kernel.

I've read a previous post that says I can configure this with MODCONF, but I
can't find an option for the supposed kernel/fs/smbfs support.

kernelversion returns 2.2

please help....

Brian.

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Hello

Brian (<brian@noreturn.com> ) wrote:

> I have installing woody debain and trying to add the smbfs option to
> mount windows drives without having to recompile the kernel.
>
> I've read a previous post that says I can configure this with MODCONF,
> but I can't find an option for the supposed kernel/fs/smbfs support.
>
> kernelversion returns 2.2

Probably 2.2.20-idepci. That one is usable for installing, but is
missing a lot of drivers. Try to apt-get install  kernel-image-2-2-20
or apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-$arch. If you use 2.4.18, make
sure to configure lilo to use the initrd. Those kernels should have the
smbfs driver. If you are not sure, use packages.debian.org to find out
which kernel images have the driver.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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