Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

[Simon Kitching <simon@ecnetwork.co.nz>]

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 18:24, Paul Scott wrote:
> Simon Kitching wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 15:42, dircha wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Simon Kitching wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>
> >>You sound like someone who has probably thought of this as the possible 
> >>cause of the problem, but did you upgrade your kernel as well?
> >>
> >Nope. 
> >  
> >
> But did the dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?  If you had previously 
> installed a kernel-image it might have been upgraded.

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. Here's the output of "uname -a"
on the "bad" version (linefeed in the middle inserted by me):
  Linux pcsimon 2.4.26-1-686 #1 
    Sat May 1 18:04:05 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

and here's the output I see after booting into the backed-up
(pre-upgrade) version of debian. It's identical:
  Linux pcsimon 2.4.26-1-686 #1 
    Sat May 1 18:04:05 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux


I can also confirm that command 
   diff -r /boot /mnt/hda6/boot
reports no differences except the tweaks I manually applied to get the
OS booting on the backup [/mnt/hda6 points to the partition containing
the "bad" upgraded version].


I think that between them, these tests (/boot contents and uname output
unchanged) demonstrate that the kernel of the good and bad (upgraded)
systems are identical, right?


Regards,

Simon