Thank Chris, All good. (Sheepishly admits that I'm also using an Intel PRO 100 VE - good lesson for me about exact hardware names and questions/gogling therof right there. Nice second guess of my idiocy BTW)
So it was: Download source from Intel unpack with tar -zxvf e100* cd e100* (ensure correct kernel headers installed.) make (to get e100.o) su to root copy e100.0 to /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf24/kernel/drivers/net/ run modconf install e100 all good Thanks also to Shaun ifconfig eth0 ip.address.xxx.xxx dhclient eth0 bpalogin And here I am posting messages of thanks from the new box under debian unstable. SLUG ROCKS!!! Happy summer to all. Hal On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 15:01, Hal Ashburner wrote: > Does that make any sense? > I've just got a sneaking suspicion I could download kernel sources, burn to cd, unpack in my debian, compile & install the same and I still won't be able to get onto the net. Having said that, I really have no clue. This is how I once installed Debian woody on my system (which has an Intel PRO 100VE). Firstly, I did a base install of Debian with compilers and kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf24. Along with this, I had downloaded the source for the e100 module from Intel's website. I then compiled the modules by doing ./configure;make After performing 'make', rather than doing 'make install' -- I mounted a vfat-formatted floppy and copied *.o to the floppy disk. Then, during the install -- after installing the modules off the CD -- just before choosing the 'configure and load modules' bit, I switched over to the 2nd virtual terminal (alt+f2) and mounted /floppy. I then cd'd to /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf24/kernel/drivers/net/ and ran: cp /floppy/* ./ I then unmounted /floppy and returned to the normal install where I then continued to the module configuration where I loaded 'e100' from the list of network card drivers. Hope this helps. -- - Chris -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
