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Old 02-12-2004, 10:06 AM   #1
sanfran49
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Don't know if network card modules are installed ?


Newbie question. I have recently installed a new kernel on my debian box (2.6.2) and since then my network card and sound has not worked. I did the following.

After downloading and unpacking the latest kernel I performed the following commands while in the usr/src/linux directory:

make menuconfig - From which I added all the appropriate kernel additions. ( I guess that's how you can put it) I then saved that.

I then typed: make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

I changed the following in my lilo.conf file :

image=/boot/bzimage
I also added the following line to lilo.conf :

append="ether=11,0x2a0, eth0" Something about network card support.

I do not know how to install individual modules, or type the commands necessary to check if they are installed. Can anyone please help?

Thanks in Advance,

Tony

P.S. I am running Deian on a Smartstep 200n with an onboard Realtek Rtl-8139 network card and an AC97 chipset audio controller. Which were both working in the previous kernel. (2.2.20)

When I type in lsmod I get the following message :

lsmod : QM_MODULES : Function not implemented.

Once again thanks for any replies.

Tony
 
Old 02-12-2004, 10:11 AM   #2
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are you certain you have module support added into the kernel?
 
Old 02-12-2004, 10:54 AM   #3
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in kernel 2.6.2 you do not have to go through all the steps you went trhough above.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...compile+kernel
this is a very god guide and will take you through the steps.
as for no modules loaded...do you know what modules your sound card ot network card use?
2.6 has quiet a lot of options for drivers...so either you should enable loadable module support or you should compile into the kernel the support for these modules.
hope this helps.
 
Old 02-12-2004, 01:53 PM   #4
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I went to http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...=compile+kernel
and followed the instructions verbatim. Everything went well until I got to the last part :
Next remove existing initrd.img file:
rm -rf /boot/initrd.x.x.x.img

..And create the new one:
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-x.x.x.img x.x.x
(Note: )
The last set of x.x.x is the eqivalent to your new kernel version and it looks to /lib/modules for that version.

When I type in the command /sbin/mkinitrd I get an error message No such file or directory. Also after I rebooted it would not boot back up again.

Any ideas?

Tony
 
  


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