Hello,

i have a sony vaio laptop and need to install ACPI to get the IRQ of my modem.
but i have some problems during the install procedure:

i have the knoppix version 2.4.19-xfs.

at first i downloaded the file
acpi-20020918-2.4.19.diff.gz
from the ACPI homepage.

then i copied the file into /usr/src
then i run:
gunzip acpi-20020726-2.4.18.diff.gz
cd linux
patch -p1 <../acpi-20020726-2.4.18.diff

After that i got the follwing message:

can't find file to patch at input line 206
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -Nura linux-2.4.19orig/MAINTAINERS linux-2.4.19acpi/MAINTAINERS
|--- linux-2.4.19orig/MAINTAINERS Sat Sep 21 20:10:11 2002
|+++ linux-2.4.19acpi/MAINTAINERS Sat Sep 21 01:00:37 2002
--------------------------
File to patch:

What can i do to solv this problem. how can i install ACPI? withut ACPI the IRQ of my modem is umknown.
Any other suggestion to get the IRQ?
(I am a linux newbie, so please dont write a too short answer)

Thanks!