From: Andy Kwong (iserlohn_at_aicompro.com)
Date: Fri 08 Mar 2002 - 19:55:40 GMT
Just out of curiosity, did you do a "make clean" and "make dep"
before you recompile your new kernel? Does the NV patches work with a
stock 2.4.18 kernel?
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:15, Marius Vincent wrote:
> Yeah well I did a source recompile and no go. Just no luck, stupid RedHat keeps breaking.
> Prefer BSD systems. They just never die.
>
> Anyhow, Can anyone tell me if I stick a Intel e100 NIC in there if it will work with the current modules?
> I see there is a eepro100.o module built in to the precompiled kernel, although I would need the e100.o for it to work correctly.
> Or can I do a install from source and it will work after I have the crx kernel installed?
>
> Anyone?
>
> P.S. As for your ext3 fs problems afer you compile the kernel. I had the same thing, untill I saw I had to select ext3 journaling fs under the fs section under "menuconfig" It all worked fine then. :) Except the modules kept breking when i tried to do a install. *sigh*
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Lyons
> To: vserver_at_solucorp.qc.ca
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:20 PM
> Subject: RE: [vserver] Network card problems
>
>
> Ooerr. I can setup stuff that's already available but not add new. google.com is your best bet :-)
>
> J
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marius Vincent [mailto:mvincent_at_uberninja.com]
> Sent: 07 March 2002 18:17
> To: vserver_at_solucorp.qc.ca
> Subject: Re: [vserver] Network card problems
>
>
> Hmmmm....
>
> Alright, then how do I include the network card modules when i do a kernel recompile?
> I have the source for for the nvidia NIC, do i just dump the .o into some directory and "make menuconfig" will pick it up?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Lyons
> To: vserver_at_solucorp.qc.ca
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:56 PM
> Subject: RE: [vserver] Network card problems
>
>
>
> Now the problem is that for the life of me I cannot get the onboard NIC to work with the ctx kernel.
> The nic was working fine, i just installed the rpm and that installed the modules.
> When I install the new kernel and try to reinstall teh rpm, or source rpm, or even straigth from the source i get problems.
> Now why does this not work?
> Anyone I am despirate!
>
> I'm not a kernel expert but I've been in your situation before.
> I had the same problem with SIS network cards.
>
> The pre compiled kernel doen't have very many nic drivers either compiled in or set to load as modules, hence you're problem.
>
> The fix is to get the kernel source, patch it, create your .config with your own nic drivers included, and recompile.
>
> It's worked for me several times in the past but I still can't get ext3 working on my own system despite the fact that I didn't mess with those settings in any of the kernel builds in the past. (That's my own personal unresolved bug btw :-))
>
> i
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