Re: kernel 2.6.6

[Law Horne <zimhat foou net>]

Andy Green, wrote:

> Well, if your ethernet device exists (you can check it with ifconfig -a) then 
> the problem is only that there is no IP assigned to the interface (and no 
> default route).  If you're okay eth0 will show up in ifconfig -a.
>
> If the problem is in the kernel not able to recognize or successfully set up 
> the driver for the device then I have no idea what to do except try the 
> newest kernel.
>
> Otherwise, try something like this as root, this shows 192.168.0.123 as your 
> IP and 192.168.0.1 as your default gateway, for example.
>
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.123 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> route add default eth0
> route add default gw 192.168.0.1
>
> If that gets you working, my advice ends at sticking that stuff 
> in /etc/rc.local so it happens every boot, but more experienced people may 
> have better suggestions to make it work with the system tools.
>
> - -Andy


Mike Lurk, wrote:


> I have had the same problem with the nforce based motherboards. The one
> thing that I tried was to turn off kudzu and it seems to work. I can
> connect to the internet and the internal network.





Well I tried both suggestions and they both did not work :( ah well. And 
now that kernel(403) is available for update through the 
updates-released channel. Well It appears that their is another 
kernel(411)in Arjan's repo so I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

Law