Re: Help! Kernel woes.

[Sean <snmjohnson@iclub.org>]

William R Pentney wrote:

>
> > > I have tried recompiling a 2.2 kernel, and now I have two problems:
> > >
> > > 1) The new kernel isn't recognizing my network card. I used the "PCI
> > > NE2000" option; it worked before on a 2.0.34 kernel I compiled on a
> > > floppy. Might I be missing an important option?
>

Have you tried ifconfig?  The kernel might be supporting the card just fine, but the
card might not be "turned on".  I'm running the 2.2.5 kernel on a slightly hacked
slink dist, and had to put the following lines into my /etc/init.d/network file:

    ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
    route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0

I did not have to do this until I moved to the 2.2.x kernel, but it seems to work
just fine.

>
>
> > Did you compile it in kernel or as modules. I also have a SB16, and
> > found that it was a bit unobvious how to configure it in
> > menuconfig... Did you get to the step of specifying the DMA, IRQ
> > etc.etc.? Which driver did you chose? You should have chosen "OSS sound
> > modules" AND "100% Sound Blastaer compatibles", and only then would
> > you have been revealed the possibility to enter I/O, IRQ etc.
> Did all of that, and it was set up with correct IRQ and all, but I still
> couldn't use /dev/audio. It is, as mentioned, a PnP. Should I use the
> mysterious "isapnptools" package?

The only way I can ever get sound to work with soundblasters is to say M to sound,
but say Y to all the drivers (OSS sound modules, etc).  Please disregard if you've
already done this.

Sean

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