Re: new kernel, now no network
"Fitz Hugh Ludlow" <fhludlow@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> I got a new kernel installed (woody from 2.2.20 to 2.4.20) following
> these instructions
> http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
(One advantage of the kernel-package system is that it's easy to
switch back to an old kernel if the new one doesn't work... :-)
> I selected to include the 3c59x network card driver in make
> menuconfig. I assumed it would just see the nic... but it doesn't.
> Nic still works fine in old kernel.
Select with "Y" to build into the kernel? What kind of network card
do you actually have?
> Ifconfig says device not found.
That's probably the best indicator that the kernel doesn't have a
network driver it believes in. Do the boot messages (or 'dmesg') say
anything informative? 'lspci' shows that the card exists, right?
> There is nothing in /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net, should I
> try to find a 3c59x.o and copy it in there? I can put the one from
> the old kernel in there, is that ok?
If you built it into the kernel ('make menuconfig' says 'Y', not 'M')
you won't have a 3c59x.o, and that's fine. In general modules need to
match the exact kernel they were built against; trying to bring in a
module from not just a different kernel but a different major kernel
release is almost guaranteed to fail. If you built using make-kpkg,
though, you should have any modules you selected built and installed
under /lib/modules...
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