On Monday 20 August 2001 8:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the > official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, > however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been > unsuccessful in compiling their source code. I've been trying to compile > and use the 2.4.8 kernel because 2.4 should have National Semiconductor > chipset support (and hence my netgear card) but when I try to boot I get > nothing. The screen says: > > LILO Linux Loader blahblah............ > Uncompressing the kernel... Ok, booting the kernel. > > And then it hangs. Doesn't go blank, just sits there w/ a blinking cursor. > A friend of mine, quite experienced w/ debian, has been helping me and he > is stumped. I have read that older machines could have a problem w/ > bzImage, but I thought the debian release was in bz format, and the CD > kernel image runs correctly. Any help? > > Thx > Matt > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html
Have you upgraded binutils etc to the latest level. If you were running 2.2.19 you would not have needed to before. If you go to the Debian Installation Instructions page there is a link to a site which has all the bits you need to run 2.4.x, including some prebuild 2.4.x kernels packaged up as .deb files.
