I've had no luck with help on linuxquestions so I figured I'd try here. I'm using debian etch.

The problem is that I can not install my network card because it says:

Makefile:62: *** Linux kernel source not found.  Stop.

Did you consider installing the kernel source?

Most probably people didn't post their solution because they were recovering from their self administered slap on the head.

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kernel-source-2.6.18-5-686 doesn't exist outside of repositories that apt-get uses.

I can not use apt-get, therefore I can not obtain kernel-source-2.6.18-5-686. That's the problem.

I'd love to install it and I've been TRYING to, except I have to actually get the file first, I've searched every repository on the internet and nothing.

Try

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.18

or

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.18-5

I don't need linux-source I need kernel-source

apt-get install linux-source.2.6.18-5 --->>> "linux-source-2.6.18 is already the newest version"

Have you looked in "dselect" to see what it offers to you?

Have you just tried

apt-get install kernel-source

?

Linux-source is the kernel source on debian systems, it is more likely than not that you need to extract it. From memory it installs by default as a bz2 tarball in /usr/src.