Re: Problems upgrading kernel
I don't know if this can help, but with 2.4.x kernel I had been having
similar problems until I compiled the drivers for my NICs (a RealTek
8139 on my desktop and a ether100 on my laptop) statically in the
kernel, not as module. This solved the problem!
Vittorio
Charles Baker [debian-user] <10/12/01 05:40 -0800>:
>
> --- William P Martin <wpmartin@pe.net> wrote:
> > I have been trying to upgrade both a woody box and a
> > sid box to a 2.4 kernel
> > (2.4.16 and 2.4.14 respectively). I use make-kpkg
> > and everthing seems to
> > work fine but I don't have a network when I reboot
> > into the new kernel. It
> > looks like the nic module loads but I cannot ping
> > anything. If I go back to
> > the old kernel still installed on the system I have
> > network connectivity
> > just fine. I am using dhcp in both places so maybe
> > that is an issue. I am
> > installing it like this:
> >
> > Running dslelect and getting
> > kernel-source-2.4.14.tar.bz2
> > bunzip2 and untar the source
> > menuconfig
> > make-kpkg -rev cusotm.1 kernel_image
> > dpkg --install newkernelimage.deb
> >
> > Then I reboot. Any help on this would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> <<SNIP>>
>
> I have been having similar problems using the stock
> kernel packages on my laptop. I haven't even tried
> compiling my own custom kernel for 2.4.x yet.
>
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