Have you made sure that you are using all of the latest userland kernel utilities.
From what I understand the new kernel module utilities are backward compatable with 2.4 kernels.
The problem may be that if you have both /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf the kernel module utilities may be getting confused.
I started to look into setting up a 2.6 kernel back when it was first released and there were a lot of packages that had to be updated in order for the 2.6 kernel to operate properly, and some of them may have had to do with networking. Christmas happened, and I have not had a chance to continue my investgation of the updates required since then.
I have hardware that I can't use because the patches won't apply to the RH 2.4 kernel. :-(
Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
Andy Green wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 January 2004 07:15, Erik Rissanen wrote:
I just tried a newer 2.6 kernel, and on that the ethernet does not work.
I didn't investigate it further.
Compare /etc/modules.conf with /etc/modprobe.conf, which replaces it in 2.6.
I've been having a similar problem with a new 2.6.0 (from development rpm) system. It boots fine the first time I boot into 2.6.0, but subsequent boots don't start networking or anything that depends on it.
(running 'telinit s' then 'telinit 3' works fine, however).
I'm currently going through the very useful comments found in /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.0/Changes after installing the appropriate kernel-doc rpm.
