Today I ran RH's up2date program in order to take care
of the security alert they emailed me about. Stayed
logged in all day. When I logged out of Linux tonight
and went over to the windows side of the box. When I
rebooted Grub offered me 2 versions of Linux (2.4.7-10
& 2.4.9-31) I assumed that the latter was the newer
version and booted that one. The first thing that
happened was I got a sound server error (cpu overload,
aborting) which is fine because I have an integrated
sound card that is not supported yet, then KNotify
crashed. Hmmmm. okay close that app. Then I find that
I am not connected to the net (I have DSL) even though
I was and still am on the windows side. OK, reboot.
Boot into the old version...no sound server error.
Good sign or so I thought. Still no internet
connection! Does anyone have an idea of why this is
happening??

were you using roaring penguin or kernel pppoe?

did you check the log files to see if there are any errors.


Was there any other updates?

if the kernel was all that's updated, then it should work with the old one.



do you connect through an ethernet card?


see what ifconfig says