After replacing the files specified, rebuilding, and such I get the following output: divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 sk98lin: Network Device Driver v6.18 (C)Copyright 1999-2003 Marvell(R). PCI: Enabling device 00:09.0 (0014 -> 0017) PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0 eth0: Requested IRQ 0 is busy. sk98lin: No adapter found. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e0a209c8 printing eip: e0a1093e *pde = 1ffa5067 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 sk98lin nls_iso8859-1 udf ppp_deflate ppp_async ppp_generic slhc via82cxxx_audio ac97_codec uart401 sound soundcore parport_pc lp parport sg sr_mod ide-scsi s CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<e0a1093e>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010006 EIP is at SkGmMacStatistic [sk98lin] 0x3e (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) eax: 000001cc ebx: 000001c8 ecx: 00002800 edx: 000029c8 esi: d87f3904 edi: e0a1e000 ebp: 00000001 esp: d87f38c0 ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process ip (pid: 32387, stackpage=d87f3000) Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000003 c1b28000 00000000 e0a045b4 c1b28000 e0a1e000 00000000 000001c8 d87f3904 c1b281d0 c1b281e0 0000000e 00000000 00000000 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000 e0a0436d c1b28000 Call Trace: [<e0a045b4>] GetPhysStatVal [sk98lin] 0x214 (0xd87f38dc) [<e0a0436d>] GetStatVal [sk98lin] 0xbd (0xd87f3918) [<e09ffc54>] MacPrivateStat [sk98lin] 0x254 (0xd87f3940) [<e09fe583>] SkPnmiGetStruct [sk98lin] 0x3c3 (0xd87f3988) [<e09f739f>] SkGeStats [sk98lin] 0x5f (0xd87f3c80) [<c0216021>] rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo [kernel] 0x381 (0xd87f3cac) [<c0216152>] rtnetlink_dump_ifinfo [kernel] 0x72 (0xd87f3ce4) [<c021fee1>] netlink_dump [kernel] 0x51 (0xd87f3d10) [<c022011d>] netlink_dump_start [kernel] 0xcd (0xd87f3d40) [<c02160e0>] rtnetlink_dump_ifinfo [kernel] 0x0 (0xd87f3d50) [<c02167b6>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg [kernel] 0x216 (0xd87f3d58) [<c02160e0>] rtnetlink_dump_ifinfo [kernel] 0x0 (0xd87f3d68) [<c02162e0>] rtnetlink_done [kernel] 0x0 (0xd87f3d6c) [<c0216393>] rtnetlink_rcv [kernel] 0xa3 (0xd87f3dc4) [<c021fd90>] netlink_data_ready [kernel] 0x60 (0xd87f3de8) [<c021f604>] netlink_unicast [kernel] 0x264 (0xd87f3df8) [<c021fb2b>] netlink_sendmsg [kernel] 0x1eb (0xd87f3e3c) [<c02071f8>] sock_sendmsg [kernel] 0x78 (0xd87f3e70) [<c0208263>] sys_sendto [kernel] 0xe3 (0xd87f3eb4) [<c01180f8>] do_page_fault [kernel] 0x128 (0xd87f3f0c) [<c0207bbd>] sys_socket [kernel] 0x3d (0xd87f3f64) [<c0208bcb>] sys_socketcall [kernel] 0x18b (0xd87f3f80) [<c01099df>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xd87f3fc0) Code: 0f b7 14 3a 09 c1 66 89 16 0f b7 04 39 66 89 46 02 31 c0 8b Zach On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 18:41, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > Zach Wilkinson wrote: > > > Downloaded patch from Syskonnect. > > http://syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/readme/linux/patch.htm > > > > I've never patched a kernel before so I'm unfamiliar with this output: > > > > patching file linux/drivers/pci/pci.ids > > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] > > Apply anyway? [n] y > > Hunk #1 FAILED at 2280. > > Hunk #2 FAILED at 3387. > > Hunk #3 FAILED at 3644. > > Hunk #4 succeeded at 3741 (offset 18 lines). > > Hunk #5 FAILED at 4973. > > Hunk #6 FAILED at 6106. > > 5 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file > > linux/drivers/pci/pci.ids.rej > > well, to patch&compile a kernel is easy but not trivial. > Syskonnect _patch_ is for a _clean_ kernel and doesn't apply well to RH kernel. > Get http://syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/zip/linux/install-618.tar.bz2 > , replace drivers/net/sk98lin/* with these files. And rebuild it again.