Yesterday I installed Debian on a laptop. I used the XFS ISO disk from http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/
and then dist-upgraded to woody and installed pcmcia card manager pcmcia-cs by picking "laptop" in tasksel. I have a SMC 2632W wireless card, but it seems like the drivers installed are old (the card works but runs very slowly). From a discussion on debian-laptop I have orinoco_cs.c 0.09b and need version .11b. So, it seems I need to build a new pcmcia-cs from sourceforge, and linux-wlan from their site. (I tried to just dpkg -i the sid pcmcia-cs .deb but that failed - insmod ds.o failed, and "no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices") I have two questions. One about what to download and how to apply patches, and the second how to work with debian's package system. First, I need to build an XFS kernel. I'm currently running 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs. I've built kernels before, but started with a debian kernel-source before. What's I'm not clear on is how to build the XFS kernel along with any other additions/patches that I might have installed now. Again, my current setup is from http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ It's been suggested that I use the JP patches at http://infolinux.de/jp/. I don't really follow their instructions, and maybe that's because the 2.4.19-* patch set has had a version change??? The instructions at http://infolinux.de/jp/ say Download 2.4.18 Linux kernel sources Unpack into /usr/src/linux Download patch-2.4.19-pre8.gz But kernel.org has "2.4.19-rc1". Just substitute 2.4.19-rc1 in the JP instructions? I'll use make-kpkg method to build and install the kernel. My second question is about building the pcmcia-cs system from source. If I'm building my own version of this package how do I prevent Apt from overwriting? Should I apt-get remove pcmcia-cs first? Or place the package on hold? I find this stuff complicated enough -- and then throw in trying to understand how it all fits in with debian is yet another worry. Any other tips welcome. Thanks, -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]