Upgrade to 2.4.18 and lose network
Apologies if this comes across as a newbie question... I've been trying
to sort through the Debian install and have had nothing but headaches...
but I'm still trying... sooner or later this will work out nicely...
Alright. I'm setting up for a firewall-box on an old P75 via 1.44M
Floppies and netinstall...
So I go through the installer and everything's relatively hunkey
dorey... I install Woody 3.0r1, and I manage to get everything set up
including the two NICs... One's a 3com Etherlink III and the other is a
rtl8139too. The two NIC driver installs go through great, and I use the
Etherlink to connect to the outside world (eth0). All is fine, I'm able
to install the base system over the net no problem. Everything works
over the net until I want to upgrade the kernel.
I'm wanting to use iptables, so I apt-get the kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4
(non-initrd) and get that all set up.
So I reboot the system, it loads up all happily into 2.4 until the
network tries to get configured, then the boot-up seizes for a bit
(while I suspect it just fails at configuring) and when I log in and try
to move around outside my system, my network isn't working... no
configuration, nothing...
I'm at a complete loss now and honestly have no clue how I'm supposed to
approach this now...
A similar problem I was having with installing on a larger box via CD (I
think with the 2.4 kernel).
So my question is basically do I have to set up the network manually,
and if so, how would I do that?
-Dave
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