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I've enjoyed the correspondence about distros. Ever since the Debian masterclass in Exeter in December 2004 I have thought that Debian is the way to go but it is not that easy to go there. I built a new desktop around an Athlon 64 and a couple of Sata disks, installed Debian sarge on it and all I need now is a wireless connection. For my favourite driver, linux-wlan-ng, I need to configure a kernel. I got the source file kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 (2.6.8 is the installed kernel), configured and compiled it and it fails to load with messages like 'can't load root fs in block (0,0)' followed by a kernel panic. The kernel documentation has some tale about mkinitrd and cramfs which I don't understand but the upshot is that I should apply a patch to the source and this is where it gets hard. I should say I have compiled a kernel lots of times before in Red Hat with not more than the usual amount of difficulty but Debian is different. I have these files: kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 the one I've been using kernel-source-2.6.8_2.6.8-16sarge5_all.deb kernel-patch-debian-2.6.8_2.6.8-16sarge5_all.deb kernel-source-2.6.8_2.6.8-16sarge5.diff the diff file says don't patch with this -- but it does include some stuff about initrd. It says older versions of mkinitrd may not recognize .ko modules; should I update mkinitrd? Why should mkinitrd be obsolete in the official source file? Has the diff file been applied already? Does that mean I would be ok if I start with the file k-s-*sarge5_all.deb rather than the bz2 file I have been working with? And what is the kernel-patch-debian file for? Do I apply this or not? I am sorry I am so ignorant.but I would really like to get this working. Tony Sumner -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html