I apologize profusely for this posting. Here it goes again. Before I get started, yes, I have read the nice mail from Linux about the kernel headers, and I have respectfully read the many emails I have received on this topic from thoughtful developers. But I am still confused. I am sorry, but I still have questions about this. This time my confusion begins from having installed the new libc6-dev package, which demands to have the kernel-headers-2.0.32 and linux-kernel-source-2.0.32 installed. I was able to install using --ignore-depends=linux-kernel-headers-2.0.32.
However, this troubles me. Mind you (all) I am not saying that what you are doing is wrong. I am just saying that it's a bit more of a kludge than I wish to deal with to have to remember that since I am using a debian system I have to go through another whole procedure to compile anything, in particular a kernel. This letter from Linux has been around since when, but can I ask, if this method is truly better, why have the REAL linux kernel sources not yet adopted it? Now I read that I can go ahead and compile the other kernels, but I have to remember another switch. A slight expedience? Not to me, of such little knowledge, I fear. So let me now ask, I hope politely, whether I HAVE to do things this other recommended way, purportedly so much better that Debian is putting one up on Linus, or is it safe to do things the normal linux way? (Ie., following the instructions in a kernel source package). I have been doing to, and have had no recent trouble with 2.0.X kernels, but I haven't been able to get PPP to run on 2.1.{67,71,72, or 73} kernels, although they did compile. I appreciate the work that the developers have been putting into this system. Thank you to each and every person who has donated time to this project. I still hope that one day I will be able to contribute something in return. Alan Davis -- "I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share it [EMAIL PROTECTED] with other people who like it" Marianas High School AAA196, Box 10001 ---Richard Stallman Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .