Problem with Internet
 

I just recently recompiled my 2.4.20 kernel (where the internet worked) to 2.6.6. Now the internet does not work. I've tried module-init-tools, enabling tulip on my kernel, making modules, making modules_install, then rebooting. Still no luck. However, before I installed module-init-tools lsmod gave me an error like the following:

root@vortex:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
lsmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented

root@vortex:~#

Though, now it just does:

root@vortex:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted

root@vortex:~#

I have no idea what to do, and it's irritating me :(. Any help? Thanks in advance.

Try doing a modprobe tulip and report the output. You see it's possible that all of your modules were being loaded from the /etc/modules.conf file. The 2.6 kernel series uses the /etc/modprobe.conf file. That's the first thing that springs to mind. If the modprobe command succeeds then all is well with module-init-tools and all you need is a way to tell linux which modules to load at boot time.

Thanks for the reply. Anyway, how do I tell it what modules to load at boot time?

Did you read my post? I told you that you probably are missing a /etc/modprobe.conf file. Can you check if you have one? If not copy over the modules.conf file. Also, you didn't run the modprobe tulip or at least didn't report any output. The modprobe command will tell you whether modules are currently capable of being loaded under that kernel.