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Re: Problems upgrading kernel



On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:58:59PM -0800, William P Martin 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 don't know if this will help, but on one of my machines, the 'potato'
installation somehow added a "options 3c59x=12" into /etc/modutils/3c59x.
When I upgraded to 'testing' with a 2.4 kernel, this made the 3c59x module
refuse to load.

HTH



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