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Anyway, I installed Debian, rebooted, and of course it didn't recognize the network card. That happens a lot. Oh well, I first of all tried to figure out which network card was in the PowerEdge 400SC. It turns out it's an Intel e100.

So I found the source code for the driver. It's at:

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Detail_Desc.asp?agr=Y&Inst=Yes&ProductID=998&DwnldID=2896

The problem is that after you download it (on another computer), and burn it to CD or floppy, get it over to the server, and copy it to /root or something, and untar it, and make install, and it first tells you...

Linux kernel source not found

This is because we don't have the kernel headers. Oh well, I can get around that. I apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18 and they are there now. It gets them from the CD. This seems to put a file in /usr/src that is kernel-headers-2.4.18.bz2

Now we try to make install, and we get,

Linux kernel source not found

If we look at the make file, it looks like the problem is that it can't find the kernel headers. I'm not sure what the best thing to do now is, but I try this:

bunzip2 kernel-headers-2.4.18.gz2
tar -xf kernel-headers-2.4.18.tar

If you try it again, you get the same problem. Oh, yeah, it's because we have kernel-2.4.8-bf24 as our kernel. Hmmm, so I try this:

ln -s kernel-headers-2.4.18 kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf24

Now when I try to make install, I get...

Linux kernel source not configured - missing version.h

Any ideas?