Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:07:44
Message-Id: 865773ce0902151807m3fd258e2h2330131e92b12eb7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade by Stroller
1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Stroller
2 <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 >
4 > On 15 Feb 2009, at 21:31, Guillermo Garron wrote:
5 >>
6 >> ...
7 >> I am running now
8 >>
9 >> uname -a
10 >>
11 >> Linux gentoo 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #7 SMP Sun Nov 16 16:29:29 BOT 2008 i686
12 >> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
13 >>
14 >> ...
15 >> And the used to generate the new kernel (where NIC is not detected)
16 >>
17 >> http://www.go2linux.org/pics/other_files/gentoo/guille1.config.txt
18 >
19 > I'm inclined to sumbit to the expertise of others when choosing kernel
20 > compilation options, and so I generally boot a recent liveCD and take a copy
21 > of the kernel .config from there (`zcat /proc/config.gz`)
22 >
23 > System Rescue CD uses a kernel of about the same vintage as the one you're
24 > trying to upgrade to. I suggest you boot with it & see if your NIC works. If
25 > so, copy the kernel config & `make oldconfig`.
26
27 Thanks a lot, did not know about that I will try to make it that way.
28
29 best regards,
30
31 Guillermo.
32
33 > http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
34 >
35 > Stroller.
36 >
37 >
38 >
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42 --
43 Guillermo Garron
44 "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
45 (Using Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo)
46 http://feeds.feedburner.com/go2linux
47 http://www.go2linux.org