Missing Network support: was Re: Booting with different kernels -- what am I missing?

[Stephen Clower]

Hi Doug and listers,
  The 2.4.26 kernel compiled successfully, although my network support seems to have died even though I enabled it along with my specific network card in config. Well, Alsa works again...


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On 5/19/2004 at 6:37 PM Doug Sutherland wrote:

>>> modules in /lib/modules
> > Is this why I'm unable to even access network devices when I try
> > running a 2.4.26 kernel on Slackware 9.1?
>
>If you compile a 2.4.26 kernel, there will be /lib/modules/2.4.26
>If you didn't compile it, then a binary/precompiled kernel would
>have to provide both the kernel image file and the associated
>modules in /lib/modules/2.4.26.
>
>If you have some time to muck around, try getting the 2.4.26 source
>from ftp.kernel.org and
>
>extract it in /usr/src
>make a new symbolic link for linux
>cd /usr/src
>rm linux
>ln -s linux-2.4.26 linux
>
>Then configure the kernel
>cd /usr/src/linux
>make mrproper
>make config OR make menuconfig
>
>Then compile the kernel
>make dep
>make bzImage
>
>Then compile and install the modules
>make modules modules_install
>
>That last command make modules_install puts the modules in
>/lib/modules/2.4.26
>
>The compiled kernel will be in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
>You need to copy that to /boot (usually renaming it vmlinuz-2.4.26)
>and then update the bootloader.
>
>Things are different with 2.6 kernels, I don't recommend using one
>yet unless you really need some feature or like to hack around.
>
>   -- Doug
>
>
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