No Netwrok after Kernel Upgrade

cmfarley19 · 07-05-2003, 05:50 AM

Installed Debian yesterday, Woody.
Changed my apt sources to testing.
Did :
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

all was well.

Did:
apt-get kernel-image-2.4-686

Updated lilo.conf as instructed.

Boot into new kernel, see an error message or 2 referencing eth0 flash by too quickly to read.

No network connection at all.

Can boot into old kernel and it works just fine.

my card is a 3com Etherlink 10/100 PCI NIC (3c905-TX)

Any thoughts?

aherrys · 07-06-2003, 09:07 PM

never used Debian before. So I cannot tell anything about you kernel upgrade process.
But I would first do lsmod to see whether the driver for the 3 com card is installed (my I guess is that it hasn't)
do dmesg to see the error that flash by too quickly, or see other log files on the /var/log. Do ls -lt to see the most recent ones. The error shown there should help you in trouble shooting further.

cmfarley19 · 07-08-2003, 05:19 AM

Thanks.
lsmod seems to indicate the driver is there.

I'm still sorting through the logs.