Re: Recompiled kernel and killed network card (newbie)
It could possibly be that by compiling your new kernel you have just
lost the appropriate module for your nic. Not a real problem at all and
nothing we could not help you to fix. First of all we have to figure out
what 'killed my network connection does mean'.
So let us see if you're having networking support enabled.
# ping localhost
should give us information about it. Now let us see if you just screwed
up your nic configuration. take a look at
# ifconfig
There should be a line with eth0 and lo. If we have both the lines
everything's fine and you just have to edit /etc/network/interfaces (see
manpage for details). If the above is negative we have to figure out
your nic-chip. Either you know it or you've to execute lspci as root and
then search the input for your nic. After you did find your nic do again
configure your kernel (e.g. make menuconfig) and search for the correct
module (there's a menupoint named something like network interfaces) and
you must also have enabled networking support. I think that should be
enough for the beginning.
Hope the almost-no-newbie-anymore could help you :)
Frank
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