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by ap_nandini

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I have installed kernel2.2.16-22 previously. NowI tried to upgrade that to kernel2.4.2 but its showing that eth0 failed. Other things are working perfectly fine except this. Can anyone help me to sort it out. Its urgent. Thanks in advance

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by eugen prokopiev

First, always keep your old kernel image and modules when upgrading to the new kernel, else Bad _Things_May_Happen() (tm).

Give me your NIC brand and model, eth0 configuration and kernel options related to networking you used when compiled new and old kernels, and I'll try to help you.

Eugen

by ap_nandini

There was some conflict in the driver module after loading an appropriate one its working fine

by mark

Did you add the NIC support as a module when you configured your kernel? If so, did you run `make modules` and `make modules_install` after compiling your kernel?

by wls

It's not just the kernel that needs upgrading, but the kernel modules as well, and the various scripts in /etc/rc.d which control which modules to load.

See http://wls.wwco.com/lqh/kernel.php for a Linux Quick Help cheat sheet on kernel building made easy.

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