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Re: Can't connect to internet with new kernel



On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 13:01, 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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I missed the Config_Filter option myself for awhile, nic card could not
be activated during boot.

Kernel config file (.config)

# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
# CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set
# CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set
CONFIG_FILTER=y
-- 
Greg C. Madden
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

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