Subject: Re: Lost networking power/connectivity with 2.4.10 kerel
From: Adam (adamhadm@frontiernet.net)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 11:40:44 MST
Is there another way of switching them back to the proper arraingement
when compililng the kernel instead of swiching the IP settings in the
net config? When I swich to the most current kernel I would have to
swithc the IP back again... In the mean time I will swich it over.
-Adam
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 20:48, John M. Wright wrote:
> Adam,
>
> Do you by any chance have two ethernet devices on your computer?
> When I switched from 2.2.19 to 2.4.10 (on installing YDL2.1),
> I couldn't get networking going until I finally noticed that,
> under kernel 2.4.10-12a, the assignmed of eth0 and eth1 was
> reversed - under 2.2.19 (and previous 2.2 kernels), eth0 was
> the on-board (BMAC) device, and eth1 was my PCI card
> with a tulip chip. Under 2.4.10, eth0 was now the PCI card,
> and eth1 was the on-board device! Once I finally noticed this,
> just swapping eth0<->eth1 in all the definition files got
> things working.
>
> John Wright
>
> > From: Adam <adamhadm@frontiernet.net>
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Date: 23 Nov 2001 18:35:07 -0500
> > Subject: Lost networking power/connectivity with 2.4.10 kerel
> >
> > I have tried many things to get my netwok up and running and every thing
> > has failed. I know it is the kernel because when I switch to the
> > 2.2.19-1k kernel it works just fine.
> >
> > I even compiled a new 2.4.10 kernel thinking I got every thing.
> >
> > Does any one have any clues?
> >
> > -Adam
> >
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