Thanks for your reply. I'm very pleased with method 4 of the README.debian in your packages - I was just obsessing about what I was doing wrong with module-assistant. Probably something idiotic on my part to do with the sources? > .. Please expand the "somethingorother" part. OK. I get: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27-2-386/include/linux/autoconf.h', needed by `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27-2-386/include/linux/modules/signal.ver'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27-2-386/kernel' make[1]: *** [_sfdep_kernel] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27-2-386' make: *** [dep-files] Error 2 A subsequent attempt to build the module with these faked sources fails. > > BTW: please send Debian specific questions to the > relevant places > (debian-user list, BTS, me, etc.); I guess this is > all not very > interesting nor relevant for most people on > linux-crypto. > Will do - my apologies for the newbie posts and thanks for the assistance. I'll try to keep my posts here on less distro-specific matters. ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/