apt-get has gone all cracky

[augie]

i'm new to debian so i'm not quite sure what to make of this little
problem. i am trying to build a secure wireless gateway with an old laptop
and of course linux, but i need some modules for the wireless card. i
found the modules in the deb package pcmcia-modules-2.2.20 which requires
me to update my stock potato kernel. and that's where everything goes
wacky.

below is what i could capture from stdout and stderr. basically everytime
after it starts unpacking the kernel-image fsck starts running and it will
run sometimes all day or just a few minutes, but it for sure happens every
time.

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kernel-image-2.2.20
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pcmcia-modules-2.2.20
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/6346kB of archives. After unpacking 14.8MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
tar: ./postinst: time stamp 2002-04-19 19:50:48 is 450041709 s in the
future
tar: ./postrm: time stamp 2002-04-19 19:50:48 is 450041709 s in the future
tar: ./preinst: time stamp 2002-04-19 19:50:48 is 450041709 s in the
future
tar: ./prerm: time stamp 2002-04-19 19:50:48 is 450041709 s in the future
tar: ./control: time stamp 2002-04-19 19:50:55 is 450041716 s in the
future
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kernel-image-2.2.20'
missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
5727 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kernel-image-2.2.20 2.2.20-5 (using
.../kernel-image-2.2.20_2.2.20-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kernel-image-2.2.20 ...

TIA

-augie


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