[lug] e1000 drivers on Debian

[Paul E Condon]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 05:44:20PM -0700, John Hernandez wrote:
> Thanks for the response, Hugh.  I did find the config file in /boot as 
> you mentioned.  Armed with that, I was able to compile the e1000 driver. 
>  Thanks again.
> 
> Hugh Brown wrote:
> >On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 14:44, John Hernandez wrote:
> >
> >>I'm running Debian 3.0 2.4.18-bf2.4 and I'm looking for the e1000 driver 
> >>Gig-E driver.  Ideally, I'd like to just apt-get a binary package and be 
> >>done.
> >>
> >>If that's not reasonable, I already have the driver source code from 
> >>Intel.  It can't be comiled without a configured kernel source tree. 
> >>How do I get that?
> >>
> >>Here's what I did so far:
> >>
> >>apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18
> >>
> >>What do I do now to get the specific configuration used for 2.4.18-bf2.4?

If you are running 2.4.18-bf2.4 on a Debian system, the .config that was
used to create it, is stored in /boot with a clueful file name.




> >
> >
> >another tool to apt-get is kernel-package
> >
> >I believe the  config is in /boot/config  or something like that.  
> >
> >The documentation on kernel-package should provide some helpful
> >pointers.
> >
> >Hugh
> >
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