Hey, installed debian woody just now, wasn't so bad (you hear so many stories ) but I have run across a problem, I'm still a bit of a n00b but I don't think I'm doing anything wrong this time...

I also have the first ISO of sarge (debian, testing) and in order for me to be able to run my wireless adapter I need a 2.4.* kernel, no problem I thought, I used apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade and loads of pacakges were installed, great, except the kernel stayed the same... ok, so apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.20-1-386 apt went about its business and I thought that was that, expect apparently my system is still running 2.2.20 I rebooted (so many years on windows ) but debian still wants to use the old kernel version even though the new one is sitting in the /lib/modules right next to it

Any ideas?

cg

AFAIK, you might have installed the kernel but you still have to compile it and then configure your system to boot to the new kernel image.

and how would I go about doing that I though apt-get did all this hard work for me

cg

Look under the slackware section in the distribution section of the forums. There is a howto right at the top for compiling a kernel.

I took a look, I think some of the tips are worth following up, especially the lilo stuff, how much of this applies to someone who has apt-getted his new kernel though? What changes because I use debian?! Sorry for all the questions...

cg