How to install Mandrake 10.1 Official with 2.4 kernel?
 

How can I choose 2.4 kernel in MDK 10.1 official installation? I have the boot disk and I start the installation with it but what next to get the 2.4 kernel?

why do you need to install using a 2.4 kernel? Is there something terribly wrong about 2.6? If you need to use 2.4, it would be way easier to install THEN to switch back to 2.4 instead of trying to mess with the installer.

"it would be way easier to install THEN to switch back to 2.4 instead of trying to mess with the installer."

Ok, im newbie. How can I get the 2.4 kernel when I have istalled it with 2.6? My network adapter doesnt work with 2.6 and I cant get to Internet, so I have to download now what I need.

Could you tell me what files I need and how to install them then in Mandrake?

well you could probably get a kernel binary from mandrake (you know, a .rpm file) so you could "easily" install it with a command like rpm -i . But I dont know much about downgrading mandrake using binary, usually my guess would be to download the "real" 2.4 source from www.kernel.org but it's harder to install then, I don't know if you want to try it.

What's your network card exactly? If you need kernel 2.4 because of some (sucky) proprietary binary drivers, you might want to stick with the exact kernel version the driver is made for. Proprietary drivers for linux often fails if you don't use the exact same version it was intended to (blame the driver makers).

My network card is DecChip 21041, PCI. I have made a thread about it:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=340183

I have done some search about this.

You might want to try the "dc2114x" module or the "de4x5". Just try modprobe <name_of_the_module> then check with ifconfig if you card is there.

I did both those modprobes and after each i typed ifconfig, but the file sain nothing about my card. There was for example:

interrupt: 10 base address: 0xb000

And when I start the pc and check those start messages, I see this:



eth0: disabling IRQ 10 failed

hmmmm I saw this before, something wrong with ACPI and PnP most likely. Try to give "pci=noacpi" as boot option (if you use lilo, put this on the line "append=" then save and run "lilo". I don't know about grub, but should be almost the same).