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Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?



On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:46, Adrian Zimmer wrote:
> I have version 2.2.20  (idepci downloaded) running OK (at runlevel 2).    
> 
> I have version 2.4.18 (compiled myself under 2.2.20) running sort-of OK
> (again runlevel 2).
> 
> One difference is that my self-configured/compiled version isn't establishing a network connection.  Here are my thoughts as to why --
> my thinking isn't good enough yet:
> 
> Something is different about the way these are booting up.  Since
> I see no error messages in /var/log/dmesg (or nothing I recognized as
> an error message) and since the same /etc configuration files are
> being used,  I'm thinking the difference must come from tests of things 
> in the /proc system.  So grep for "/proc" within the files found in 

First thing is:
$ dmesg|grep -n eth

For example, here's my output:
$ dmesg|grep -n eth
233:eth0: VIA VT86C100A Rhine at 0xa000, 00:80:c8:e9:a7:b8, IRQ 4.
234:eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1
          Link 4de1.
275:eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #8 link partner capability
          of 4de1.

Another good preliminary diagnostic tool is lspci and it's "-v"
option.  In my case:
$ lspci | grep [eE]ther
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A 
        [Rhine] (rev 06)
$ lspci -v -s 00:0a.0
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A 
        [Rhine] (rev 06)
        Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DFE-530TX rev A
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 4
        I/O ports at a000 [size=128]
        Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]

Ron
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