Debian

Uh... I tried Dselect. I went through packages, found kernel-source-2.6.18 and selected it, went to install.

The terminal says that it's about to remove almost 200 packages, do I wan't to continue? I type in "no" and it says "Abort."

Then it starts removing them, I hit ctrl+z to stop it but too late, it removed something critical so now I need to re-install because the system hangs about 2 mins after it starts.

I'll try that next time reborg, thanks.

/usr/src is empty :/

Ive got exactly the same problem as originally described here. Ive tried all that has been suggested and still no solution.

Ive written down the steps ive tried, if they seem random its purely from suggestions on similar threads.

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Downloaded Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet driver for Linux [l1-linux-v1.2.40.2]
cd to src file
code: make
ERROR: Makefile:62: *** Linux kernel source not found. Stop.

Downloaded Kernel Headers [linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-7_amd64.deb]
code: dpkg -i linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-7_amd64.deb
OUTPUT: (Reading database ... 52831 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-kernel-headers 2.6.18-7 (using linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-7_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-kernel-headers ...
Setting up linux-kernel-headers (2.6.18-7) ...

Tried installing ethernet driver again, same error.
ERROR: Makefile:62: *** Linux kernel source not found. Stop.

Downloaded kernel source [kernel-source-2.6.8_2.6.8-17sarge1_all.deb]
code: dpkg -i kernel-source-2.6.8_2.6.8-17sarge1_all.deb
OUTPUT: Selecting previously deselected package kernel-source-2.6.8.
(Reading database ... 52831 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-source-2.6.8 (from kernel-source-2.6.8_2.6.8-17sarge1_all.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-source-2.6.8 (2.6.8-17sarge1) ...

Tried installing ethernet driver again, same error.
ERROR: Makefile:62: *** Linux kernel source not found. Stop.

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being as i have no internet access it is proving quite difficult to sort the problem, im fairly new to linux and am trying to understand what is going on!

thanks