Re: Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2
Michael Madden <mjmadden_1999@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I've got 2 Debian 2.2 R2 systems. One has a NE2000 ISA NIC, and the
>other one has a 3Com 3C509 ISA card. I've recently updated the kernel
>to 2.4.0, and I'm having a great deal of trouble getting the network
>cards working. When it is booting up I get errors indicating the
>device /dev/eth0 doesn't exist and it cannot load the module. I've
>confirmed the needed modules are compiled under
>/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/net.
You need the modutils in testing/unstable. The version in potato is too
old, as the layout of modules in /lib/modules has changed since then.
The newer modutils is compiled against a newer glibc, so you might have
to build it from source.
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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