Do you know a good tutorial for upgrading the kernel via the apt-get without
compiling the source manually? I am confused on the order of operations.
When to download the pcmcia and headers?

thanks.
"Matt Lindsey" <mattlind@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message
news:c2a979$893$1@news-int.gatech.edu...
> I have done some more reading. I used apt-get install kernel-image to
> upgrade the kernel. However, I did not install the headers or the
> pcmcia-modules for the k7. I am currently reading about how to properly
> upgrade a kernel. Thanks for the help.
>
>
> "Andy Fraser" <andyfraser31@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ps0kh1-7k.ln1@news.linuxuser.org.uk...
> > On Thursday 04 March 2004 6:20 am, Matt Lindsey uttered these immortal
> > words:
> >
> > >> upgraded to kernel-image-2.4.18-1-K7 now my network card will not
> > >> initialize. System says that eth0 is not installed. Is there any way
to
> > >> rollback drivers? Are there default drivers included in the kernel?
> >
> > Please don't top post.
> >
> > I need a lot more information. Exactly how did you install the kernel
> image?
> > Are you using LILO or GRUB (my guess would be LILO for Debian but I want
> to
> > make sure)? This is a stupid question but you really do have a K7
> > processor? What does "lspci -v" say about you card? What's the output
from
> > "uname -a"? Assuming LILO, did you add "initrd=/initrd.img"
> > to /etc/lilo.conf and re-run /sbin/lilo (if you didn't the kernel
> shouldn't
> > boot but it's worth checking)? Run dmesg and look for lines that start
> with
> > "eth0". What does it say there?
> >
> > You can't "rollback" drivers (in the MS sense) because drivers are built
> for
> > that kernel and that kernel only. The setup should've added this
> > to /etc/lilo.conf so you can boot the old kernel again:
> >
> > image=/vmlinuz.old
> > label=LinuxOLD
> > read-only
> > optional
> >
> > If it didn't, make sure /vmlinuz.old exists and is symlinked to
> > boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20 (or whatever 2.2 kernel you have), add the above
> stanza
> > to the end of /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo.
> >
> > > It says that the device is not found. I tried to do: modprobe 3c59x.
> > > insmod failed.
> >
> > Any other error?
> >
> > --
> > Andy.
>
>