Unable to find Ncurses libararies/Compile Kernel

2004-01-22 Thread Forest Fisher
I'm trying to upgrade from the 2.4.18 kernel that installs with the bf24 flavor to hopefully a 2.6.1 kernel but at the very least, a 2.4.24 kernel. I put the zipped source code (i.e. linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2) into the /usr/src directory, checked to make sure there were no symlinks, and then did: #tar

Re: ethernet not working right - SOLVED!

2004-01-20 Thread Forest Fisher
I reinstalled Debian tonight and now dhclient appears to be working. I guess the problem was with how the ethernet driver was interacting with the kernel. I don't know exactly what I did differently because a friend of mine helped me choose what drivers to include in the kernel last time, but I s

Re: ethernet not working right

2004-01-20 Thread Forest Fisher
> Sorry if their just typos but should ext0 be eth0? > -- > Cheers, > rinmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ryan, No need for apologies; it was late and part of the problem seems to be that I was typing ext0 (which should be eth0 as you pointed out.) However, even with eth0, dhclient is still not giving m

ethernet not working right

2004-01-18 Thread Forest Fisher
"dhcp" at the suggestion of a friend, but this gives me the same results. Can anyone help please? Sincerely, Forest Fisher -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.4 won't recognize my keyboard?

2004-01-13 Thread Forest Fisher
I'm trying to install Debian on my new laptop and I want to install the 2.4 kernel so I can use reiserfs.I'm installing from cd's that I ordered from debian.org for woody 3.0r2, i386 architecture. The problem is that the 2.4 kernel doesn't seem to recognize my keyboard but the 2.2 kernel do

Athlon and Debian?

2003-12-24 Thread Forest Fisher
I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M Processor. I was hoping to run Debian on my new computer, but the official webpage indicates that the latest release of Debian is not supported by the Athlon architecture. Nonetheless, other webpages (such as DebianPlanet.org) t

debian on my athlon?

2003-12-24 Thread Forest Fisher
I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M processor. It's a new processor designed specifically to minimize energy use for laptops. I was hoping to run Debian GNU/Linux on my laptop, but the official website indicates that the latest release is not built for the Athlon