Kernel 2.4.25 upgrade broke my network
Hello all,
Forgive me. I'm sure this has happened to others, but I can't find it
in the archives. I am trying to get more familiar with the inner
workings of Linux, and this has been a real learning experience.
I recently installed Woody from CD. I accidentally used the default
2.2.20 kernel at the install. I then upgraded to Sid through apt-get.
Yesterday I downloaded kernel 2.4.25 and rebuilt using make-kpkg. I
added support for USB and my systems sound card, etc. I believe I have
a good kernel configuration, and the log files support that. OTOH, it's
broken, and nothing else has changed.
Now, networking is broken at boot time when I boot with the 2.4.25
kernel. I have a local gateway for the 4 machines at home. It's at
192.168.1.1
If I do:
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.20 up
the network device comes up, and I can ping machines on my local
network. However, it doesn't seem to be able to resolve network names
correctly even though the resolv.conf has the right IP addresses in it
for the name servers.
I get similar results with
#ifup eth0
It almost seems like the 2.4.25 kernel is running a different init file
from the older kernel. I can boot from the older rescue floppy and the
networking works just fine, even though it it mounting exactly the same
file system.
Does anybody have an idea what's going on?
joe
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