On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:54:42PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > I have managed to compile my kernel on my Dell laptop for the first time > last week. I have created a kernel-image-2.2.17_dell.0.1+i386.deb and a > pcmcia-modules-2.2.17_3.1.8-16+dell.0.1_i386.deb. They installed well with > dpkg -i. > Now I am determined to get sound working and I compiled again, creating > a kernel-image-2.2.17_dell.0.2+i386.deb and a corresponding new > pcmcia-modules.
You say you compiled new pcmcia as well? Try installing both at the same time on dpkg command line. > Now if I do dpkg -i kernel-image-etc, I see: > > eme_lap:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.17_dell.0.2_i386.deb > dpkg: regarding kernel-image-2.2.17_dell.0.2_i386.deb containing > kernel-image-2.2.17: > pcmcia-modules-2.2.17 conflicts with kernel-image-2.2.17 (>> dell.0.1) > kernel-image-2.2.17 (version dell.0.2) is to be installed. > dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.2.17_dell.0.2_i386.deb > (--install): > conflicting packages - not installing kernel-image-2.2.17 > Errors were encountered while processing: > kernel-image-2.2.17_dell.0.2_i386.deb > > This leaves me puzzled. > > Does anyone have a clue to what I am missing here? > > Thanks a lot. > > -- > Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do :)