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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:35:28
Message-Id: 4AACF51B.4040708@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network by Dirk Heinrichs
1 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
2 > Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 13:04:37 schrieb Arttu V.:
3 >
4 >> On 9/13/09, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On 09/13/2009 01:48 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com
9 >>>> <mailto:kogorman@×××××.com>> wrote:
10 >>>> Umm. I just looked at the .config files, and it appears the interfaces
11 >>>> are supported by the config option CONFIG_EEPRO100=y
12 >>>> which is not even present in the 2.6.30 file. Eeeek! Is my system now
13 >>>> unsupportable?
14 >>>>
15 >>> It's CONFIG_E100:
16 >>>
17 >>>
18 >> Yes, a different(?) driver is to be used apparently (code duplication
19 >> reductions?):
20 >>
21 >> "e100: add support for 82552 10/100 adapter"
22 >>
23 >
24 > Yep. It's these kind of changes that make me go through make menuconfig once
25 > after major version upgrades.
26 >
27 > BTW: There's no need for "make oldconfig" in this case.
28 >
29 > Bye...
30 >
31 > Dirk
32 >
33 >
34 >
35
36 If it helps, my hard drive chipset changed, gave me a kernel panic the
37 first time, then after that the sound didn't work. It took me two tries
38 to get the kernel working.
39
40 Like everything else, its just progress. LOL
41
42 Dale
43
44 :-) :-)