On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:47:34PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: | Hi, | | I' running sid on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I connect to the network via a | PCMCIA card Xircom ethernet 10/100 in a LAN through DHCP. Everything is | fine with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. But after switching to kernel 2.4.9 (That | I've compiled myself), the lights of my network card are still blinking, | but I cannot ping anymore. I think (It seems obvious) that It is a kernel | configuration problem, as the same OS run nicely with the 2.2.18 kernel.
I'm not familiar with that card, but when I built my kernel for this Inspiron 7500 (3Com 575 type NIC) I needed to include the "regular" driver for it. That is, I needed to build the 3c59x driver as well as the standard PCMCIA stuff. HTH, -D
