Re: Please help, network card does not work after kernel upgrade (though it gets detected by kernel)

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Hamid wrote:

> Is there anyone who can help me with my netwotk problem.
> I am on a DHCP network and after fisrt installation of Woody it was 
> working perfectly (it automatically set all the settings)
> But after upgrading to new kernel 2.4.20, it does not work anymore. I 
> have compiled my network card into kernel and as you can see from the 
> output of dmesg, it gets detected by the kernel but I don't know why 
> it does not work, i.e. I do not have any connection to outside world.


In "/etc/networking/interfaces" you should have a stanza that looks 
something like:

auto lo eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Then run "/etc/init.d/networking stop" followed by 
"/etc/init.d/networking start".
This should get your network working. If not, what's the output of 
"ifconfig"?

Some other things to check:
lspci
lsmod
network cable
/etc/resolv.conf
dhcp-client or pump or a similar dhcp client app

--
Kent