[ale] if 'dpkg' is removed, will this entirely disable all up-dating/grading & apt-getfunctions?

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

Follow Raylynn's advice.

On 10/24/06, Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> James,
>
> Sorry for the incoherence. It was about midnight.....
>
> Anyway, what I now better understand is: what I'm missing with the new
> kernel
> is a driver for my ethernet card, de620.o, which of course was not part of
> the
> new kernel. So, I was thinking that if I could compile the source, I would
> compile
> in said functionality. But it then occurred to me that I don't know how to
> "relate"
> a new kernel to the old kernel-image functionality. I guess, basically I'd
> just
> forget the former image and just link the newly compiled kernel to a boot
> capability.
> But the better and much simpler answer would be to just get a
> kernel-2.6.x compatible de620 module.
>
> How ?
>
> Once this is done, I think I'll be all set but 'til then I can't get on the
> internet with this
> machine.
>
> Appreciatively,
> Courtney


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