Kernel Upgrade Problems - IBM T23
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Hi
I've recently
acquired a brand new IBM T23 with no operating system on it. I've been
working at getting Debian stabilized as the only OS for this machine. I
have several computers and don't foresee a need for a dual OS
machine.
My problem is, I can
install from the 4 ide-pci floppies without problem and get X to work. At
this point, I'd like to start installing other modules like pcmcia-cs-3.2.1 to
support my Cisco wireless NIC. In order to do this, I need to recompile
the kernel so I opted to upgrade to the latest kernel kernel-source-2.4.18 from the debian
site.
I'm not sure if I'm
missing something during the make config ( or actually, I used make xconfig),
but it seems as though everything compiles fine and I specified to load the
network drivers as modules but upon reboot, I can't manage to get my eth0
interface to DHCP an address. When I configure an IP address on it
manually, I can ping local devices so obviously there must be more configuration
I need to do when manually specifying an IP. My question is, why am I
unable to use DHCP? Do I need pump or something like that? I thought
dhcpd would take care of it.
Additionally, I
specified support for vfat filesystems but my floppy drive still will not mount
after reboot.
Am I just missing
some fundamental things here, as I suspect I am?
There's 8 million
documents on rebuilding kernels but I've tried a few of them w/ similar
results. Any advice/pointers would be greatly appreciated. As you
probably can tell by now, I'm no linux guru. I've installed Redhat several
times in the past with no problem but RH is a bit more newbie
oriented.
Any
advice?
Thanks,
Zach
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