i recently recompiled my kernel to 2.6.5. i was successful doing that, the only problem i had was, once i rebooted, everytime i tried to ping a host on my internal network, it came up with "network unreachable"
running netconfig didn't help either. i guess i might have not compiled the module for my ethernet card during makeconfig. and that's where my question comes in, i have a card by the name of Macronix 98175 PMAC rev 32, its running fine on 2.4.22 but doesn't work when i go into 2.6.5
i also checked to see what kind of cards makeconfig offered while going under network setup and the card wasn't listed there, so instead i selected the Linux Tulip driver. i'm really confused here, how do i go about getting the appropriate driver detected for the ethernet card.
also, i have a really old sound card, SB 4.0, how do i get that going on the 2.6.5 ?
any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

Your card should use the tulip driver. If you compiled support for the tulip module, etc, you'll just want to have it load at boot time or modprobe afterwards.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...hp?product=607

modprobe tulip as root to load it, etc.