🚀 go-pugleaf

I've been trying to compile a new kernel for my linux machine
and I keep getting errors during the compilition process.

The kernal I have been trying to compile is 2.1.44 but I also get
errors trying to compile 2.0.30.  Is there some reason for thins and
if so any suggestion on how to prevent it.

Also I wanted to know how I can Install device drivers on linux??

I found drivers for my network card but am not sure what to do with them.
It is just a tar file which unpacks to the /usr/src dir. Do i have to
compile them
or what ?? (Yes I know my newness to linux is showing. But how else
do you learn ??).

My machine is an Authentic AMD K6 200 with 64 meg of ram on
an Abit TX97-XE motherboard and a Matrox millenium
with 4 meg of memory on