Re: [PLUG] potato to woody question

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:10:57AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> A second, says lspci, is Bridgecom Inc: Unknown device 9851
> (rev. 11). (It's a Linksys card.) Google makes me think that this card
> may be hopeless.

Is it the LNE100TX (EtherFast)?
http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=25

> A third is 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 9909 (rev. 02). Not enough
> information to find much on google, it seems.

Try going into the kernel source directory, doing a 'make menuconfig',
and looking at the options for various cards to see if yours is there.
It would be helpful if you posted the model name of your card.

> 1. Am I confused? Apt-get upgraded many things, but not, apparently,
> anything kernel related. Is this intentional? Yes, I could recompile
> the kernel, but I still have to think a lot when I do that, and I've
> made errors before that render my machine inoperable after a kernel
> compile, something I try to avoid.

Yes, this is by design.  It's a feature.  ;^)  Do "apt-cache search
--names-only kernel-image" to see the various kernel-image packages
available, and pick the one that's most appropriate for your system.  If
you upgrade to a 2.4 kernel image, you'll need to add
"initrd=/boot/initrd" to the section for "image=/vmlinuz"; Debian's
using an initrd image for some strange reason for the 2.4 series. :-/

> 2. Why does apt-get say it's holding back certain packages when I do a
> dist-upgrade?

If all packages won't have all their dependencies satisfies, apt-get
will attempt to upgrade the more important packages at the expense of
the less important packages.  The man page has slightly more
information.

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