Re: network unreachable after kernel build
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, George Khoury wrote:
> I installed woody with the 2.2.20-idepci kernel last week, and yesterday
> I built 2.4.18 from source using kernel-package. Now the network is
> unreachable, even in ping. Honestly I have no idea what is going on.
[...]
> I got the same output with the old kernel, except eth0 had an IP
> address. One major difference in the kernels is that I built in the
> network card driver -- does this cause problems? Any help is greatly
> appreciated.
A few of us on this list have recently had the same problem. The solution
is to make sure your kernel config says yes to CONFIG_PACKET and
CONFIG_FILTER. See, for example,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg05057.html
hth
Patrick
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