Re: USB on Debian Potato?

On Friday 25 July 2008 19:48, someone identifying as *Mike Fontenot* wrote
in /comp.os.linux.hardware:/


OK, "uname -a" returns

Linux C188603-B 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i686 unknown

So your kernel is a 2.2.19, with a prepatch for the -17 subrelease.
Typically "pre" kernels are experimental releases.

I haven't exactly been following the thread, but since you were advised that
you need at least a 2.4 kernel, you're going to have to upgrade at least
your kernel, but more ideally would be to have an entire distribution that
was built for a 2.4 generation kernel, as many things may break while
running on the newer kernel.

The 2.4 generation was a major step up from the 2.2 generation, just as the
2.6 generation is a major step up from 2.4. There might be inconsistencies
and all whole new range of bugs if you were to use a 2.2-built distribution
with a 2.4 kernel. They would not be major things, but little, annoying
and impossible to fix bugs.

--
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
.

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