Re: eth0: woes
I'm using the standard debian kernel. I don't even have the kernel source on
my machine. The main reason my server is running debian rather than gentoo
is because I wanted something which would require less maintenace and where I
wouldn't have to compile everything myself.
From looking in /boot, I guess there was a kernel upgrade around the 1st
December. It could well be that I haven't restarted it since then.
Obviously with the nic not working I'll have to transfer a kernel source over
by cd before I can build a new kernel.
On Monday 07 February 2005 03:14, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Allen Fensome wrote:
> > Hey thanks for the quick responses.
> >
> > /sbin/depmod -a gives a whole load statements like this: *** Unresolved
> > symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386/kernel/net/{lots of different stuff
> > here}
> >
> > /sbin/modprobe 8139too gives me 3 insmod failed errors. For
> > __netdev_watchdog_up_R7d3cbbe7, mii.o and 8139too.
>
> It sounds to me as if there has been a kernel update at some point (as you
> mentioned the box was running for a few months) and this is the first time
> you've booted into it. Do you roll your own kernels?
>
> Do you have any known working kernels you can boot into?
>
> > The nic does, however, still seem to be listed in /proc/iomem
>
> You'd expect that even if a drive is not loaded.
>
> > Further suggestions? Should I assume that there is a problem with the
> > kernel modules supporting the nic?
>
> Drop back to a known working kernel and consider building a new one which
> does not have these dependency errors. If you are using Debian kernels
> you hopefully would not see dependency errors. I've always rolled my own
> vanilla kernels (from 1.0 to 2.4) but with recent revelations about
> security problems with vanilla 2.6 kernels I'll be building only from
> distro supplied kernel until the situation improves.
>
> Rob
>
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