At 06:44 AM 2/28/00 -0700, James Atkinson wrote [in part]:
>Every time I compile a new kernel I hit some small error that makes my computer
>almost useless..
>
>Last time something went wrong and it couldn't mount the root filesystem. This
>time I can't seem to compile my network card driver.(Realtek 8139), thus
>makeing it impossible for me to get online (cable modem).
>
>During the config (menuconfig and xconfig) I see an option to either compile in
>or load a modual for my network card. However I can never select that option,
>not matter what other options I try, its allways greyed out. Any idea why this
>is?
I don't use xconfig, and I can't match up your description to a menuconfig
choice. At a guess, you have omitted something that the module depends on in
the kernel compile, making the driver itself not an available option.
Without reviewing your .config file completely -- something that's really
too difficult to be appropriate to do -- it would be difficult to say what.
But using menuconfig, I've never seen this problem, so I suspect it is
something very basic in the "networking options" sub-menu, possibly
something as basic as "TCP/IP networking".
>
>I figured this wouldn't be a problem, the driver was there and it had
>instructions on how to compile it. So fine, I did. The compile went fine, no
>errors, however when I try and load it, it gives me
>'Unresolved Symbols'.
>That pops up when I do a depmod -a, insmod, or modprobe. Nothing I do seems to
>work.
This usually means a mismatch between the module and the kernel versions. In
your case, I suspect it means an actual lack of some kernel component.
Without seeing the actual messages, there's no change I could say what, and
not much chance that anyone else could. Even with the actual messages, it
might not be apparent what is missing.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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