Re: Debian put into a broken state

From: Sean O'Dell (sean_at_celsoft.com)
Date: 04/02/04

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    On Thursday 01 April 2004 03:08 pm, Alan Chandler wrote:
    > On Thursday 01 April 2004 23:34, Sean O'Dell wrote:
    > > Solved this, pretty much. Basically, when I upgraded, two things
    > > happened that I didn't know about. One, the kernel driver for my network
    > > card stopped getting loaded; something happened during dist-upgrade or
    > > upgrade that caused it to be removed from the list of modules to load. I
    > > compiled the driver static in the kernel and the network was able to load
    > > after that. Also, kdm apparently was un-installed by something during
    > > dist-upgrade or upgrade. So, once I got the network back up, removing
    > > and re-installing various things got me back in working order.
    >
    > It would probably be better for you to use a standard debian kernel and add
    > the name of the ethernet driver into /etc/modules

    Why? Is Debian a pain to use with custom-compiled kernels?

            Sean O'Dell 

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