From: Marius Vincent (mvincent_at_uberninja.com)
Date: Fri 08 Mar 2002 - 23:45:37 GMT
Not at all, I ended up grabbing my intel pro s 10/100 NIC and dumped that in
system.
I ended up loading the eepro100 module that comes with the precompiled
kernel and that worked perfectly!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Kwong" <iserlohn_at_aicompro.com>
To: <vserver_at_solucorp.qc.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [vserver] Network card problems
> 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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