Nico De Ranter wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm trying to reinstall Debian on my Toshiba Portable using a mirror > on one of > our network servers. To do this I need PCMCIA facilities since my > networkadaptor > is a PCMCIA card. What I did is: > > * I first installed the base system using the regular set of disks I > created. > * rebooted the computer > * I copied the pcmciacs.deb, pcmmdl20.deb, pcmsorc.deb and > pcmmdl2z.deb packages > to a floppy and tried to install them using: > > dpkg -i pcmciacs.deb > dpkg -i pcmmdl20.deb > dpkg -i pcmsorc.deb (not really necessary I gues, but I did it > anyway) > > THIS USED TO WORK, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work anymore? > When I install > the pcmmdl20.dev package, dpkg complains about a missing prerequisit > kernel-image-2.0.27
Index of /pub/mirrors/debian/frozen/binary-i386/base Name Last modified Size Description kernel-image-2.0.27_2..20-Mar-97 05:51 1M kernel-image-2.0.29_4..26-Mar-97 23:13 1M kernel-image-2.0.30_2..22-Apr-97 05:00 2M Now that is funny because I had the same problem, and I notice that it is in the 'base' section of the ftp site of bo/frozen/1.3, however it was not installed by my base disks either, or at least the package was not providing the dependency fufillment? a bug I suppose. > > although that's exactly the kernel that is installed. I even tried > copying the > krnimg20.deb package and installing it but this does NOT make any > difference. dpkg > keeps complaining that the package is missing. I also noticed that it unpacked it but didn't install it as a result of this. so I used dpkg --force-dependency pcmcia-modules-xxxxx.deb; now it is installed anyway. I guess you didn't do this because.... > When I reboot my computer the I get > complaints from cardmgr about incorrect values in System.map (I > don't remember the > exact message, but it's the same message you get when you recompile > the kernel and > forget to recompile the modules). now my problem was that everthing worked but ifconfig and route add were not run automagicaly :( can anybody help me? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, hope I helped you. > > thanks in advance, > > Nico. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .