Hey folks!

Nice board... I hope I'll be able to contribute, too - but for now, I'm the one with the need for help

I got my brand-new laptop (Samsung R65) and tried to install Debian on it...
Getting the X to do what it should do already took my one week of compiling kernels and pre-installing...

By now everything's fine, except for the hardware.
It's the sarge dist with a 2.6.16 kernel.

I'm desperatly trying to get my Intel 3945-wlan card to work... but still that's not the problem, since I have the stuff needed for that (official and less official drivers and also the ndiswrapper). It just won't compile.

The problem is, that the sarge installer put the gcc 3.3-something on the disk, yet I need at least the 3.4-something for compiling my stuff.

"No problem", I thought, since we've got aptitude! Yeah but it's not gonna do the trick for me. First of all it's not possible to mark the lower gcc version as "purge" (more precisely: it is, but it just will show up purple and do nothing after typing [g]). Second, it will tolerate gcc 3.4 and even 4.1 being installed at the same time, but
Code:
> gcc --version
still prints 3.3* - and "make" uses this one. Upgrading is not really possible with either 3.4 or 4.0 or 4.1...

Suggestions? (I already removed the "Auto"-flag by typing m and dselect doesn't like my system... when I try to install or deinstall something it tries to remove merely everything that's on it....)

Or shall I just kick sarge and take etch? (I don't like soldiers anyway... even if they're just toy-soldiers)...

Thanks for suggestions!

PS: I promise I'll do an entry on "linux-on-laptops" after having finished the installation, and so far everybody can ask me how to get debian to work on a Samsung R65...

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PPS: unfortunately the forum search does not work for gcc... but i've already figured out that it's possible to have multiple versions... now, how do I get "make" to work with an appropriate gcc version when compiling drivers from source?