> > I've been around the block about 600 times trying to get network
> > cards to
> > work.  I've had it where it will show up under ifconfig, the routing
> > table
> > will be correct, but ping just stares back at me.  That one turned
> > out to
> > be needing to set an IO recovery delay in the BIOS -- since yours
> > used to
> > work on that machine, I bet its not that hard.
> 
> Well, maybe,... but it's more headslap dumb on my part - it works
> under the compact kernel, but not the one I compile.  Well, I guess
> I'll just see how it goes again.

If that's the case, you could start your kernel build by using the
configuration of the kernel package. If you still have the kernel package
installed you should be able to copy /etc/boot/config-2.2.18pre21
/usr/src/linux/.config, make menuconfig, and make the changes you need. I
have a scsi card that just wouldn't work properly on any kernel I built, but
worked fine on the kernels included with the distribution. I even compared
my configs to the packed kernel's configs and didn't see anything.
Eventyally I just took the config from the packaged kernel and removed
everything I didn't want. It worked. 

I'm fairly certin that the compact kernel doesn't have ipmasq/firewalling
support, so in that case you will have to get a different kernel compiled
(or grab a different pre-compiled kernel from the Debian archive.)

If you're having troubles with newer network cards you might want to check
here: 
 http://www.scyld.com/linux_network_drivers.html for new drivers. The newest
Linsys Tulip card doesn't seem to work with any kernel, and need the latest
drivers (drivers on the linksys floppy work fine) 

No a bit of make-kpkg info:
The quick and dirty way for make-kpkg is:
make menuconfig
make-kpkg --revision=99:custom.1.0 kernel_image
This will build a Debian package for you kernel (including modules). The
modules_image is for building extra modules (such as lm-sensors, pcmcia,
alsa, etc...) in /usr/src/modules. You don't need to do this step if you
don't need any of these extra modules. 

Instead of using the 2.2.18pre21 source, go grab the 2.2.18 source from
ftp.us.kernel.org, or 2.4.0 if you're feeling brave. 

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