Thought I would pass on the results of my kernel recompile efforts and the problems I was having with the network after the kernel was recompiled. (posted a week or two ago) Recall that I was doing some work with making a new kernel for RH7.2 and an AMD XP 2100+ chip. I did the recompile myself, started up the new kernel and found that I no longer had a network connection. Everything had started fine, eth0 came up, etc. ... but I could not ping to the outside world. I even tried downloading the ATHLON kernel from RH with the appropriate updated modules, etc. and just installed that directly. Still ... NO networking ability. (networking is turned on in that kernel) I finally just physically removed the card, rebooted the system and deleted the drivers on bootup, then shutdown and rebooted again, this time with the card reinstalled, reinstalled the driver, same IP settings, etc. and ... the networking finally worked. No changes to the kernel, just a deletion and reinstall of the NIC to make it work. Does this seem a bit odd, or is it possible that I did something to cause this sort of problem? Comments appreciated! Randy Clarksean, Ph.D., P.E. Leading Technology Designs, Inc. 106 North Boardman Ave. P.O. Box N New York Mills, MN 56567 "Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible." - Author Unknown ph: 218-385-3750 fax:218-385-3751 email: rclark at lakesplus.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030402/afc978de/attachment.html