After recompiling the kernel i tried to bring up my interface eth0 but it didn't work. I pinged its ip address and it worked just fine. I tried to insert its module but it returned the message " can't locate module for which the kernel was compiled". I have R.H 7.2 and kernel 2.4.7-10. Any ideas anyone about what might be the problem?

Hi
If you can ping its IP, it must be working. Did you compile with the card as a module, or did you select the yes box, which builds it into the kernel?
what does ifconfig say? Post it here.
Jim

When you re-compiled the kernel, did you remember to 'make modules' and make modules_install'? Right now its looking where the modules are stored /lib/modules/2.4.x/ and finding the ones for the previous incarnation of your kernel. It should have removed all of the old ones if you just recompiled your old kernel or it should have an entirely new directory if you compiled and are running a newer one.

Hope that helps,

Cheers,

Finegan

to the question from drjimstuckinwin i did select the yes box but i still decided to insert modules from the command promt (don't think that would have helped ). Anyway, i did it to satisfy myself.
ifconfig displays only the lo interface. I can also see the card from the network configuration tool but it didn't have an irq set. I tried to assign irq to it but it did not work and don't worry the irq i tried to set was not in conflict.
To the question from finegan i made a link of /lib/modules/2.4.x to /lib/modules/2.4.xnew and kept the old copy as /lib/modules/2.4.xold and only after this i ran both the make modules and make modules_install command. I know the situation is complex. Good luck to both of you in figuring out the problem. wish me luck as well.

I had vmware running on my machine which had created a virtual interface with the ip address that i was pinging. When I shutdown vmware, ping to that ip address did not work as expected. But when I checked linuxconf it showed me the card along with its ip address and irq setting thus it was mind boggling. I tried all ifconfig and route commands but I was unable to bring up my eth0 interface. Hope this revelation would help in getting to the bottom of the matter.

Okay, sorry about accusing you of the newbie error there, it just sounded like one. This is now weird. Okay, down to brass tacks: what's the card?, the format (PCI, ISA)?, the output from ifconfig (from the command line), and the output of lsmod (also CL) after a clean boot? Also, how does your machine acquire its external IP? DHCP, PPPoe? Static?

Cheers,

Finegan

If you checked yes mot m, its in the kernel from boot, not modular, thus you don't need to load a module. Check /var/log/messages for lines about eth0.

the card is sis 900 which is built-in. I have also tried using realtek 8139 pci card which also yielded no result. The amazing thing is that both worked just fine before i recompiled the kernel. I had given them static ip addresses. About ifconfig i have already mentioned that it showed only lo interface.
:smash:

Go through the kernel config again, its really easy to get something wrong-I should know, it usually takes me two or three attempts to get it right