Re: Kernel Recompile Issue
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On Friday 21 March 2003 01:58 pm, Irish, Jon D MEVATEC wrote:
> I just recompiled my kernel to get sound working. I used 2.4.20, and
> sound is now working fine :-) However, my network connection is now dead.
> I selected it when I compiled the kernel (it is a 3com 3c905C), and
> dmesg reveals that it was found and loaded. ifconfig shows it, but there
> is not IP address assigned to it. If I try dhclient eth0, I get no
> errors, but no address either. /etc/network/interfaces looks fine (even
> has the DHCP switch). What am I missing here?
>
> Sincerely,
> Jon D. Irish (Mevatec Contractor)
> Lower Tier Project Office
You may have missed one of these two options when you compiled your kernel.
'dhclient' requires this, or you could use 'pump' which doesn't require one
or both.
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_FILTER=y
- --
Greg Madden
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