[GLLUG] New Network Card

[Brian Hoort]

Ok. Supposing I get this thing on the net someday soon, the first thing I 
want to do is dist-upgrade to testing. Will doing that put me on a stock 
testing kernel? If not, how do I go back to one?

Alternatively, this would all make more sense if I had a 'debian testing' 
CD. Then I could dist-upgrade now, and figure out the newer pcmcia, etc. 
rather than an already depreciated one in stable. I have been unable to 
find one on egr. Does anyone have an URL where I can Dl one?

TIA!

At 11:44 AM 6/10/2002, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>Brian Hoort <hoortbri@msu.edu> writes:
>
> > If a person doesn't want to run custom kernels, is it possible to just
> > use modules provided by the Debian distribution? In other words, if I
> > was running the stock kernel, I could just install pcmcia-cs and the
> > module for my NIC, reboot and be up and running, rather than having to
> > get the source, apply the patch to the kernel, etc.?
>
>There's a good chance that that would work.
>
> > Or is it likely
> > that on a laptop I'll have to compile my own kernel anyhow?
>
>I doubt it.  Most laptops use pretty standard hardware these
>days, besides video/audio/modem.
>
> > How many of you are running custom compiled kernels vs. stock distro ones?
>
>I use a custom-compiled kernel, but I probably don't need to
>anymore since my M700-specific patches made it into Linus's
>releases many moons ago.