Re: Starting Debian Woody - a few quick questions - was Re: [LUG] Super Methane Brothers

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is it true the default Debian kernel 2.2 (?!) ships without
> 'NET_CONFIG_RADIO' enabled? I can't persuade wvlan_cs to work
> correctly, it claims to create netdevice eth0, and I can't rmmod
> wvlan_cs till I 'ifconfig eth0 down', but 'iwconfig' doesn't
> recognise it as a wireless card, so I figure it must be the
> kernel settings.

It's something like 2.2.20, with lots of drivers in the kernel.

> I installed 2.4.18 Kernel sourcs from CD, is it best to just
> build a kernel from these? Or can I stay within the package
> manager, and well trodden paths - Kai was saying us users
> shouldn't be building bespoke kernels these days - what is the
> alternative?

There should be a whole set of precompiled 2.4.18 kernels,
maybe they are on the disks you havn't got...

It seems reasonably easy to use once you get the hang
of it. 

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