K, I finally managed to rebuild a working kernel with net support, wireless at that! But I am getting some module errors, and I can't figure them out. The first one I get is during boot-time, I get the following errors for the natsemi module that runs my regular NIC:

/lib/netsomi.o unresolved symbol...

After the symbol part of the message there is some info from the file, I'm assuming, but the boot goes too fast for me to read it. Any ideas what I could do about this error, and also is there a way to slow down the boot messages so I can read them as they go by?

My next module issue happens when the networking service is starting. My main NIC is wireless, and is actually a pcmcia card through a cardbus. The connection is there and I can surf no problem, but when the system is booting I get the following error:

Bringing up eth0 [OK]
modprobe: can't lovate module eth1

now, I was under the impression that my pcmcia card would actually be managed by cardmgr, so it shouldn't be using modules necessaril, also eth1 is my pcmcia main NIC and it does access the net just fine. The other time I get this message is if I use the command: service network restart. So it appears to me that sysV is trying to manage the card, when it can't, am I correct and how can I fix these errors?

Thanks,
Mike.

That can happen if you didn't do a make modules; make modules install when you made the new kernel. It could be trying to use modules based on an old kernel version or something. Or the modules could just plain not be there. Check to see if you changed them from being compiled as modules to being compiled directly into the kernel.

k, I did the make modules and make modules_install, but I will check if they are configured to be loaded, or if they are config'd directly in the kernel. Thanks for the response! Any other ideas are more than welcome!

Mike.