Which driver does the 2.2.18pre21 kernel load for your network card? On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 05:20, Josef Dalcolmo wrote: > > Dear Debian Friends! > > I tried various installations of Woody from a set of CDs which where created > around Nov 9, and found some problems, I would like to report in this manner. > > The machine was an Inspiron-5000 Laptop, with a D-link-650 PCMCIA network card > (compatible to NE2000). > > None of the Woody kernels I've tried recognised my network card, so I ended up > with the network unconfigured after install. After playing unsuccessfully with > the network setup, I tried recompiling a 2.2.19 kernel with PCMCIA support and > also a 2.4.10 kernel (with its own PCMCIA support) - with no more success. > > Then I tried an install from scratch with a Potato-2.2R2 CD (kernel > 2.2.18pre21) and it did recognise the D-link-650 network card fine, and > configured the network right! > > Upgrading to woody did not change anything, the network still worked fine, > until I tried to upgrade the kernel too. I tried kernel packages 2.2.19 > (vanilla), 2.2.19-???-ext3, 2.4.10-???-686, 2.4.12 (vanilla), installing them > with dselect. None of these kernels supported my PCMCIA based network card. > > When I re-installed the old 2.2.18pre21 kernel, everything worked fine again. > Perhaps I missed something, but I would say, the newer kernels (including > 2.2.19) have a broken module there somewhere in the pcmcia stuff. > > - Josef > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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