The latest stable kernel in Debian is 2.2.1. I'm downloading it now. Robert On 26-Sep-99 Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:47:10PM +0200, Hanno Wagner wrote: >> I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz >> Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running >> linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice) >> and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux >> installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed >> it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When >> this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple >> entries of the following line: >> "Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --" > > These are just keep-alives of the syslog daemon nothing unusual ... > >> Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my > > Nope .. Althought i havent got a 770 ... > >> workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux >> machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day >> pretty much all year round. > > I am running Debian slink with a Kernel 2.2.12 + pcmcia + irda + alsa on my > Thinkpad 390 without any problem ... > >> I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware. > > What modules do you have loaded - Any pcmcia utils ? Anything special > you are doing while the machine crashes ? Do you have X Running ? > > You are running quiet an old Kernel though this might not mean its > unstable there might be some fixes to known problems in the 2 1/2 Years > of development between 2.0.36 and 2.2.12 ... > > Try a new kernel ... > > Flo > -- > Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +49-5241-470566 > ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is > catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
