Re: [LUG] Urgent debian help needed! :-(

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon wrote:
> Sorry to bother you again but us n00bies keep breaking stuff in the 
> quest for linux knowledge and understanding ;-)
>
> I did a "apt-get distupgrade" last night in order to upgrade my machine 
> to 'unstable'.  Which appear to work fine, except that the suspend 
> broke for some reason so I rebooted and when it came back, the 
> networking didn't work.  Indeed it appears PCMCIA card services are 
> completely defunct.
>
> So I did a "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start" and it said "modprobe: can't 
> locate pcmcia_core".  There are in fact several pcmcia_core files on my 
> machine, but they are all for older kernel versions.  So I'm guessing 
> it's upgraded my kernel version but failed to install all the necessary 
> kernel modules.
>
> So how do I now install the necessaries, given that my networking is 
> now broken?  Shall I roll back to an older kernel and install from 
> there?  How do I go about that?
>
> Alternatively I could borrow a Windows machine (on an ADSL line) and 
> transfer via floppy or CD if I know what files I need, where to get 
> them from and how to install them on my laptop.
>
> Any help much appreciated (as ever)!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
hmm.. newbies "up"grading to unstable.... not a good idea...

Do you know how to upgrade a kernel ? If so, download one and compile it 
as required.. If not i'll post a quick howto... if that doesn't work, i 
can send you a woody CD in the post mate..

Neil


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