Re: No more connection to internet after Kernel 2.1.113
Michel Catudal (bbcat@netonecom.net)
Sun, 02 Aug 1998 18:09:50 -0400
Michel Catudal wrote:
>
> First I'll describe the system I have
>
> A Dell Precision with a 486DX/33Mhz with 33Mhz and 2 hard disk
> around 1.1-1.2G each. I have 24MB of RAM
>
> On the first drive I have a small partition of around 250MB in
> fat for Winblows 95 (more that I could ever need) and the rest
> is in HPFS with OS/2, and of course a boot manager.
> On the second hard disk I have a 64MB swap partition and
> a logical partition of around 960MB where I have
> Linux RedHat 5.1 (French installation)
>
> I compiled the newer kernel last night. It compiled apparently
> without a problem. When I booted on the new kernel it didn't load
> any of the modules. I tried several approaches as described by
> many people on the net, nothing seemed to work.
>
> I finally dealt with the dissapearing of the preferred link to the
> new kernel by commenting out the lines that scrap it in rc.sysinit.
> It still didn't load the modules but did create the modules.dep file
> on that directory.
>
> I then loaded all the modules by hand with insmod and could mount the
> different systems (hpfs, vfat, cdrom). All seem to work very well.
>
> Two little problems :
>
> Let's say I type :"ls asdahajgfajg"
>
> I should be getting this message :
> ls: asdahajgfajg: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
> instead of that I get :
> ls: asdahajgfajg: Aucun fichier ou r-pertoire de ce type
>
> I don't have that problem inside a shell under X.
>
> The second problem is my connection to the net, it no longer
> works. I start out the script as usual with "ifup ppp0" and
> it dials allright but after a short while the line goes dead and
> it will keep redialing forever unless I shut it up with "ifdown ppp0"
> It seems to me that the ppp is broken with this new kernel.
>
> Any idea?
>
> I badly need my sound and the newer kernels seem to be the only ones
> that might give that to me. I have not been able to get the ES1869F from
> ESS to work at all with the other kernels (2.0.xx)
> I haven't checked yet but from the messages I got on the boot Linux
> seemed happy with my sound card (at last)
>
> Modules
> block :
> ide-cd.o rd.o
> cdrom :
> cdrom.o mcd.o
> fs :
> fat.o hpfs.o isofs.o msdos.o vfat.o
> nls-cp850.o nls-cp863.o nls-iso8859-1.o
> net :
> bsd_comp.o dummy.o ppp_deflate.o
> misc :
> joystick.o parport.o parport_pc.o
>
> In the kernel setup I left all the default fs which weren't set as
> modules to be include in the kernel as the hard disk and floppy.
>
> I put the support for OSS sound in the kernel as there seem to be
> a bug in that it would not let me change the interrupt if I choose
> a module. It is obvious that it would never work with the default
> interrupt 7. I tried with both "make config" and "make xconfig" and
> the options are disabled in both cases.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
I forgot to mention that I include the support of ppp into the kernel.
At first I tried to get everything in the kernel but since it wouldn't
compile (too big) I took some stuff out to put into modules.
I rechecked several times to make sure my eyes hadn't played tricks
on me and yes the ppp support is in the kernel, as far as the
configuration file is concerned anyway.
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