eth0 gone
Hi all,
Something really strange happened here. Yesterday my laptop worked perfectly. Today after booting, my internet does not work. dhclient returned errors, and ifconfig showed that there was no eth0. Thought I'd do a /etc/init.d/network restart, but it only restarted lo and vmware8, no eth0 at all. Then I took a look at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and there was no ifcfg-eth0, just an ifcfg-eth0.bak. I renamed the file to ifcfg-eth0 and retried /etc/init.d/network restart, now getting an error that there was nu such device eth0, wtf? I really don't know what happened. I'm the only one using this laptop, so it's impossible somebody screwed with it. Now I booted with my previous kernel and everything is working. So it makes me think that I screwed up something yesterday with my kernel. To think of it, I tried to recompile my kernel to get my wireless network card working and to enable NTFS support. Therefor, I downloaded the sources of my current kernel (kernel-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5.src.rpm) and executed the following steps (after installing and uncompressing the sources): Quote:
For those interested, the error was as follows: Quote:
I don't know what happened, but it's clear that the problem is in the kernel. But that doesn't make sense to me as I booted that same kernel yesterday without problems. What is it that I may have done wrong? I'm puzzled. |
Hi guys,
I dug a bit deeper into this, and it seems that most of my modules are gone. Quote:
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Anyway, it definitely seems these modules were removed when trying to recompile my kernel. I would appreciate if somebody could point me out where this could have happened (As I didn't remove them manually). Thanks. |
It was a very long time since I tried to compile the kernel, but often the all target of make include all steps. There is a probability that 'make all' even executed 'make modules' and 'make modules_install'
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