On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Tony Laszlo wrote:
> > I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba > Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . > I won't be running X and will just need to > use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), > lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel > port modules. > > Have gone through the installation steps from > floppy to the point where the system boots > from the hard disk. Next, I need to get an > Corega EtherII PCC-T ethernet card working I've heard that pcmcia stuff is hard to get going under these laptops...*shrugg* Joe > in order to point dselect to the Packages.gz > on the debian ftp or www site. > > My questions: > > * In accordance with advice from someone who > had installed Linux on one of these beasts, > I chose Debian 2.0 distribution (/dists/Debian-2.0/). > Is this the preferred version for this machine and > these needs? > > * while uname -a shows that the kernel running > is 2.0.36, somehow modules are 2.0.34 . I tried > to insmod pcmcia.o , etc. and got an error message > that the modules don't machine the kernel. > How could this happen and what's the best way to > reinstall so it doesn't happen or fix the problem > without reinstalling? > > * To see what would happen, I downloaded the > pcmcia-modules deb file (2.0.36) from the Debian-2.0 > site (copying it over to the Toshiba via floppies). > This I was able to install with dpkg -i ; so, while > the modules are 2.0.34, there are two sets of pcmcia > modules, 2.0.34 and 2.0.36 . > The Ethernet card requires pcnet_cs.0 so I entered > the necessary lines in /etc/pcmcia/config and started > pcmcia with "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start" (I have this > card working on a Linux box that runs with Turbolinux > [quite similar to Redhat]). On the Toshiba w/ Debian > it's not perfect yet, but the card is being recognized, > at least partially. > Anything else I need to do? Does the network need to > be configured before the card will be recognized > properly? > > * Finally, I downloaded the kernel source from > /Debian-2.0/ and tried dpkg -i. It seems that I > need to install binutils first, or at the same time. > Anything else needed before I can recompile the > kernel? bin86, maybe? kernel headers of some kind? > > Thanks! > > Tony Laszlo > Jiyugaoka, Tokyo > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >