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Network connection down after compiling 2.6.11.2

Submitted by mith
on March 13, 2005 - 9:19am

Hello everyone, I am having some trouble with my ethernet connection after recompiling my kernel. I am using Slackware 10 which comes with kernel 2.4.? and I just upgraded to 2.6.11.2.
I'm reasonably sure the compilation process went well, I didn't get any errors at least and I also made sure I included all the right modules I need, including network support. But now when I boot into my 2.6.11.2 kernel I can't get connected. Everything else seems to work nicely though.
Is this a common problem? Can anyone suggest any fixes?

Thanks :)

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Re: Network connection down after compiling 2.6.11.2

Andy Esten
on
March 18, 2005 - 11:24am

Hi Mith,

Check if the correct IRQ is assigned to network card during startup! Try booting the 2.6 kernel with pci=routeirq on the commandline. If this fix the problem the driver is broken and needs a fix. What kind of network card are you using?

Network Connection down

Anonymous (not verified)
on
March 26, 2005 - 12:19pm

I don't know if it is your problem, but in my case it was.
2.6 uses modprobe.conf instead of the old modules.conf, so add the line for you nic inside modprobe.conf and then you can activate it with ifconfig. ( I am using redhat now, I have no clue how it is done in slacware, I used ifup eth0, after modifying ifcfg-eth0, and it worked)

Good luck
Andres

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