Re: networking, NIC, kernel

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 15:16, David Cannings wrote:
[...]
> I would assume that the 2.4 series have CONFIG_NFSD compiled into
> them then but have not checked this myself.  The two options I see
> are to use the userspace NFS daemon, nfs-user-server or to switch to
> one of the 2.4 kernels you mention.

Which brings me back to the original problem:  The 2.4 series kernels I 
have installed on that box fail to bring up eth0 entirely, and I have 
no idea why.

> The first few kernel compiles are definitely hard and it is a steep
> learning curve but one which is worthwhile.  Unless you have some
> very exotic hardware it should be fairly easy to identify which bits
> you need to compile in.  If you ignore modules and simply compile the
> whole lot in you will find that helps too.

One day, I will compile a kernel and it _will_ run...

-- 
richard