Re: Thinkpad X20, eth0 up failed after recompile kernel 2.4.30

[Juraj Ziegler <next@trip.sk>]

Chunjing Xu wrote:
> My X20 runs a quite old kernel 2.2.20(network is okay), so I download a new 
> kernel 2.4.30, loaded old config file and the ONLY change is 
> "add apm support" and compiled it with old Ethernet options like following:
>
>  [*] Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
>  < >  Sun Happy Meal 10/100baseT support
>  < >  Sun GEM & Apple GMAC support
>  [*] 3COM cards
>  <*>  3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support
>  < >  3cr990 series "Typhoon" Support
>  [*] Western Digital/SMC cards
>  [*] Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards
>  <M> HP 10/100VG PCLAN (ISA, EISA, PCI) support
>  [] EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
>  [] Pocket and portable adapters 
>
> system loaded new kernel well except network can not bring up.
> use "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.19" give information:
>
> SIOCSIFADDR: no such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device
>
> with lspci it outputs:
>
> ...
> 00.0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09)
> ...


Are you sure you have the driver for your card compiled in? Your card uses 
the e100.ko driver, but from what you pasted above, it is not clear, 
whether you have compiled it.

Check this:
<M>   EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)
<M>   Intel(R) PRO/100+ support

Or, in the config file:
CONFIG_EEPRO100=m
CONFIG_E100=m


j.

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