RE: Can't connect to internet with new kernel
More to the point since I just updated to 2.4.18 myself and noticed on
reboot no nic. whats in /lib/modules. did you run make modules? if your
driver (3c509x.o I think) is in there insmod it and your network should come
back
-----Original Message-----
From: David Smead [mailto:smead@amplepower.com]
Sent: 20 April 2002 22:14
To: Deepak Subburam
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can't connect to internet with new kernel
What do you have in /etc/network/interfaces?
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Sincerely,
David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Deepak Subburam wrote:
> Hello!
> I am a new user to Debian (and Linux) and just compiled the 2.4.18 kernel
> since the 2.2.20-compact kernel that I was using did not support sound or
> my USB mouse.
>
> The new kernel works fine and my soundcard and USB mouse work OK! However,
> my 3COM 3c509B card doesn't work and I can't connect to the internet. I've
> tried both compiling with the 3c509 support in kernel and as a module -
> both while seemingly loading the support correctly (no error messages
> during bootup) end up not connecting to the internet.
>
> The one difference I did notice was that ifconfig does not produce the
> second line below with my new setup:
>
> $ ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:20:19:C8
> inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
> ......
> The other lines seem to be the same. Anyone knows what could be the
> problem? Thanks! I attach the entire output of ifconfig below for
reference.
>
> Deepak Subburam
>
> With the old, working setup:
> $ ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:20:19:C8
> inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:288 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:9 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:316878 (309.4 KiB) TX bytes:26285 (25.6 KiB)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:4280 (4.1 KiB) TX bytes:4280 (4.1 KiB)
>
> and with the new, not working, setup:
> $ ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:20:19:C8
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:276 (276.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:4020 (3.9 KiB) TX bytes:4020 (3.9 KiB)
>
>
>
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