Re: Problems upgrading kernel
--- 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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