Hello Users,
A couple of weeks ago I tasted debian first time and was so
excited about what Linux can offer these days that I wanted to
give a serious try to move permanetly to linux world and leave
windows behind.
Installing Sarge went without any complications, everything
worked quite nice, although I had to do serveral
configurations, updates and "apt-get installs". Only problem
was with tv-card. I might got it working but then I red/heard
that using 2.6 kernel would solve that problem, and overall
it would be much better than 2.4, so I choosed to update.
I made another Sarge installation (just to be sure not to
break anything) and started updating its kernel.
With help from this howto (which was, IMHO, very good and
clear howto):
http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm
I successfully build 2.6.9 kernel.
But when I booted It didn't work:
When I booted I got graphical login screen where I entered
username and password, but right after that I got error
saying something like:
Xsession lasted less than 10 seconds, ~/xsession.log has been
writen.
No problem, as howto says: "You'll probably need to build the
kernel a few times before you get it just right", so just
reconfigure and rebuild :)
1) I booted back to 2.4 kernel and then I got this very
urgent problem, i cannot connect to network.
2) I tryed to boot back to first Sarge installataion and no
network.
3) I tryd to boot to windowsXP and same there, cannot connect
to network.
I did factory reset to my ADLS modem, and retryed all steps
abowe, no network.
During both Sarge boots I can see this error message:
Spurious 8259A interrupt irq7
I dont know whether it is any way related to this problem.
Also I can see that DHCP fails to connect to my service
provider.
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So, my QUESTION is here:
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I made two Sarge installations. Before kernel tryout both had
properly operating network connection. After kernel tryout I
have three OS (2 x Debian and 1 winXP) which cannot get
network connection.
Can anyone point me some direction where to start looking.
I reseted my ADLS modem, and it didnt have any affect, so does
this mean that BIOS has been changed some how by my kernel
tryout?
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Details of my computer:
- Processor is AMD Athlon XP +3000
- Motherboard is K7N2 Delta-L
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K7N2_Delta-L
- Network card is on-board
- ADLS modem is A-Link RoadRunner 44
:)Marko