Thank you very much for your help. i got woody with 2.4.18 kernel and the
following /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.leo.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.uni-koeln.de/ftp/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
just me, J.D.
..::drowning in my tears again::..
