ethernet card does not seem to be present
 

Hi,

I just installed a new kernel to my redhat 7.3; kernel 2.4.18. I got 3 ethernet cards which use modules 3c59x,e1000 and eepro100 in its regular kernel. When compiling new kernel I tried both M and * options but neither of them worked.

I checked loaded modules by 'lsmod' but it is empty. Moreover the directory /lib/kernel/2.4.18/drivers has only one directory 'net' and it only has one file 'dummy.o'


if anyone could help, I would be pleased.

Thanks,

ercan

did you "make modules" and "make modules_install"?

do you mean "/lib/modules/2.4.18/drivers"?

yes i did do both make modules and make modules install

yeap, i mean lib/modules/2.4.18/drivers

do you have any idea what the problem is?

thanks

hmm, I just checked my old modules folder (as i have put all my hardware straight in the kernel for my current kernel) and there they are, all the modules in /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/net. I konw that compiling produces LOADS of messages, maybe theres a way of telling it to only print warnings and find out if something is going wrong there during the configure/make process?


btw, just check if the permissions are at least rwx------- for /lib/modules just in case, you would not be able to put modules in there if you couldn't write!!!