Problem with Intel eepro100 on IBM Thinkpad--Solved

smutt · /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r8/modules.dep

I've gone through the install with the live CD on my IBM Thinkpad. When I boot off the LiveCD my Ethernet card is recognized no problem. When I boot from the harddrive no such luck. I get errors when I try

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 12:37 am Post subject:

Which kernel are you booting, -r6 or -r8 ?

To find out, type "uname -a".

alcatraz · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 19

smutt · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 7:54 am Post subject:

Cyrillic: I'm running 2.4.20-gentoo-r6. However I only have a directory for lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r8. Is it possible that Genkernel isn't replacing that directory with r6 because it sees r8 as a newer version? Do you think I could just delete lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r8 and run genkernel again?

Alcatraz: Tried that but I just got a lot of unresolved symbol errors.

cyrillic · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 1:19 am Post subject:

Genkernel may have only done a partial run, and died before installing the -r6 modules.

You could always try booting your -r8 kernel (because you already have matching modules), or if that doesn't work, run genkernel again so you get a complete set of kernel + modules that match.

smutt · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:31 am Post subject:

Problem solved. Thanks for your help cyrillic. The question you posed in your first post pointed me in the right direction. I renamed /lib/modules/*r8 and recompiled the kernel. This got me a full r8 kernel which I then booted and my e100 was properly detected. Thanks.