kernel differences during installation process
 

Installed Slackware 9.1 once and everything went fine, except I believe that possibly me ethernet card wasn't working due to the kernel I chose during the installation..

Now, the question is, what are the differences between the kernels? As far as I can see, they all look like they're named after filesystems or different setups you can have for your hdd's, or low memory machines etc.. Is there a certain one I can load that will load up all of my stuff, or would I have to just go ahead and compile my own after I boot off of /bare.i/bzImage (which is what I used on the last installation of slack).

machine specs: MSI KT4 Ultra Motherboard. AMD1800XP+ with 512MB RAM. GeForce4 MMX 440, 15GB Quantum Fireball HDD using IDE, and am unsure of the exact NIC at this time but can find out once I get it booted up and running..

Probably want to stick with bare.i for now. If you can figure out what type of NIC you have that would be a big help. Then you can try to load the appropriate module for it, or build a new kernel with support for that particular NIC.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. I've compiled my own kernel a few times so I know how to, atleast. I just don't have a lot of experience with slack yet, and the kernel selection was something I'd never seen before during a setup.. But then again I've only tried three distros (Debian, Mandrake, and now Slack.)

I'll get the NIC info and see if I can load a module for it.

PS.. If hardware isn't loaded, would lspci still list it, and would ifconfig still show eth0?

ifconfig shouldn't show it if it isn't configured. You should be able to run lspci and look directly at hardware (according to man lspci).

Well.. Damn. I'm really doing this to try and get the network up but it fits better in here so I posted it here.. I'm unsure what to try next, I guess I'll compile my own kernel and try to mess with the xp host.
Here's the other thread for the networking, just in case.http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=164680